Research-informed guidance built for use with other people
Playbook · Guide + scam practice
Everyday Responsible AI
A plain-language guide for families and community members to understand everyday AI, recognize risks, verify media, and ask for human help.
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Shared foundation · local decisions
Adapt this playbook with the people who will use it.
Mississippi communities do not have identical needs, infrastructure, histories, or access. Use the evidence and tools as a starting point, then let local people shape the purpose, examples, pace, safeguards, and measures of success.
EditionEdition 1.0
Last reviewedOctober 27, 2026
Review bodyMississippi AI Collaborative
Board leadKrystal Chatman
Next reviewApril 2027, or sooner after a material source change
Every Mississippian deserves to understand when AI may be shaping information or decisions—and how to question it.
What you will leave with
A practical safety habit: pause, protect private information, verify through a separate source, and keep a person responsible for important outcomes.
Start here
Ask these five questions first.
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Am I looking at a recommendation, generated content, or an automated decision?
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Is this message creating urgency or asking for money or private information?
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Can I check the original source through a separate channel?
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Could an automated system affect a job, service, or opportunity?
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How can I request an explanation or human assistance?
Evidence behind this guide
Why pause, verify, and contact a person another way.
Federal consumer and cybersecurity guidance shows how urgency, cloned voices, realistic media, and requests for private information can be used to deceive people. Independent verification is the practical defense.
01 · Federal consumer guidanceCurrent consumer guidance
Scammers use fake emergencies to steal your money
Federal Trade Commission
What we learned
The FTC explains that emergency scams depend on panic and impersonation. The safe response is to pause and contact the person through a number you already know is real.
How it shaped this resource
We use it for the cloned-voice scenario and the rule to verify urgent requests through a separate channel before sending money or information.
Sources and requirements can change. Check the publication date, read the original material, and confirm the rules that apply locally before making a consequential decision.
Understand the choices
Stay informed, protect yourself, and ask for a person.
Use these four ideas when AI appears in messages, services, applications, schoolwork, or everyday decisions.
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What you may encounter
AI can recommend videos, rank search results, generate text or images, answer questions, recognize speech, and help organizations sort information or make predictions.
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Convincing is not the same as authentic
Generated text, images, audio, and video can look polished while being inaccurate or fabricated. Appearance alone cannot establish what is real.
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Scams create urgency
Pause when a message asks for immediate money, secrecy, account access, or personal information. A cloned voice can sound like someone you know.
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Automated decisions can affect opportunity
When technology influences employment, education, housing, credit, insurance, or public services, ask what information was used and how to request human review.
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Community voice matters
Residents can ask schools, workplaces, local governments, libraries, and community institutions how AI is used, what is protected, and who is accountable.
Make a plan
Take these 5 steps.
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Good places to begin
Use AI to support the work.
✓ Brainstorming a grocery list or community event ideas
✓ Rewriting your own message in plainer language
✓ Practicing questions before a meeting or interview
Stop and reconsider
Do not hand over the judgment.
× Sending money because of an urgent voice or video message
× Using AI as the only source for legal, financial, health, or safety decisions
× Sharing private family, account, or identity information
Use the tools
Keep these safety tools close.
Use them when a message feels urgent, a result affects your life, or you are unsure whether information is trustworthy.
Practical guide
Two-page AI safety guide
A plain-language reference for everyday use.
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Reference card
AI scam response card
A short routine for urgent or suspicious messages.
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Action plan
Community workshop plan
A ready-to-facilitate 45-minute public session.
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Practice together25 minutes
Real, Fake, or Uncertain?
Practice a verification routine for synthetic media and an emergency scam.
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Review a sample image, post, audio clip, or video without voting on appearance alone.
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Find the earliest available source and examine publication history.
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Look for independent reporting or corroborating evidence.
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Label the item verified, false, altered, or still uncertain—and explain why.
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For the emergency-call scenario, contact the supposed caller through a separately verified number before acting.
Talk about it
Which verification step was more reliable than simply deciding whether the media looked real?
Before you act
Share the plan with the people responsible for the work and the people who may be affected. Confirm local rules, protect private information, and name the person who can answer questions or correct a problem.
