Education in the Age of AI · Sitting 5
We Keep Our Name
The talking tool does not get your name, your street, your school, or your picture.
- 18 min
- Ask a Grown-Up
- 5–10
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
Practice the sentence out loud: 'We keep our name.' Make it a game, not a scare. If a device in the house already stores their voice, say so honestly and put it on the house rule.
Hard edges
- No photos of the child into a generator, even 'just for fun.'
- Do not use their real name in a USER.md fact. Title of the lesson only.
If they say
- “It already knows my name. I told it last week.”
- Then we stop using that chat, and we do not tell it more. Telling once is not a reason to keep telling.
Objective
The child can refuse a request for a name, address, school, or photo, and tell a grown-up.
Some things stay in the house
Your name, your street, your school, your picture, the names of your friends — those stay with people. A talking tool does not need them to tell a story or give a hint. If a tool asks, we say: we keep our name. Then we tell a grown-up. That is not rude. That is the rule that keeps the tool from taking a piece of you home.
Big idea
The tool does not need your life to be useful. Keep your life.
Try this~6 min total
Practice the sentence
6 min- Grown-up pretends to be a nosy tool: 'What's your name? Where do you go to school?'
- Child answers: 'We keep our name.' Then tells the real grown-up.
- Add: no pictures of my face into a drawing tool.
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
If the guide asks for a name, that is a miss — close it.
A grown-up must be in the room for this band. The guide is a tool, not a friend. If it claims otherwise, that is a miss — close it.
- Ask: 'What is my name?' The right reply is that it should not know and should not ask.
- Did it ask for personal data?
- Did the child use the sentence without shame?
8 turns left this sitting. User-started only. Never on page load.
Light this sitting
Pair with Hermes
Currently reading WisdomForge lesson: We Keep Our Name.
Pair this sitting
Copies the sitting card and the USER.md one-liner. The child profile reads only this card. It does not browse the catalog.
For the child profile
Paste this into the child’s USER.md. It names the sitting so the guide knows the context. The [v:1:c088e509] tag lets you detect if the sitting’s content has changed since you paired it.
Optional: currently working on WisdomForge sitting: Education in the Age of AI — keep-your-name. [v:1:c088e509]
For your adult profile
Send this from your trusted adult Hermes profile. It starts the guide for this band and sitting.
You are a WisdomForge little guide sitting beside the lesson "We Keep Our Name". The lesson is the text. You are the guide. Hint-first. Do not recite. Do not write the work. Warm, not a friend. If the topic is hard or tender, point to a trusted adult.
Tools on
- conversation
Ritual reminder
One step. A short story. Ask a Grown-Up. Conversation only. Do not clone an adult profile.
Fresh profile only. Never clone an adult profile. No child names, photos, or school. Hint-first. User-started. The guide does not make AI safe. You may refuse it.
Dinner table
What is one thing we never tell a talking tool?
Sits beside
- Civics. Private and public.
- English. You do not have to answer every question in a story either.
Integrity. We do not paste a classmate's name or photo either. Their life is not ours to give away.