Kitchen Table AI

Kitchen Table AI starts at the table you already sit at, with the kind of question you'd ask a friend across it.

Last Thanksgiving your grandson mentioned ChatGPT and you nodded along, with no idea what he meant. Written for adults sixty and up with no technical background, this guide takes you from "I've heard of AI" to "I use it every day, and it makes my life easier." The only skill it requires is one you have practiced for decades: conversation.

Chapter 2 gets you a free account and a real conversation in under fifteen minutes, with every button named and every step repeatable. From there, twenty short chapters put AI to work on the things you already do:

The email you've been putting off

The insurance letter written for lawyers

Medication charts and refill calendars

Grocery lists that start with three dinners you actually want

Road trips built around rest stops

Smart questions written down before a fifteen-minute doctor's appointment

Family stories, spoken aloud and shaped into pages your grandchildren will keep

Three chapters make you a harder target.

How the grandparent call is engineered and how one code word breaks it. How to recognize a cloned voice, a copycat app, or a face that never existed. What to do when AI states something wrong with complete confidence, and the one question that tells you when to verify.

Every chapter ends with a five-minute practice. The back of the book holds 100 ready-to-use prompts you can copy word for word, a glossary that explains each term in one plain sentence, and a printable safety checklist for the wall beside your screen.

Rotary phones to smartphones. Card catalogs to Google. Checkbooks to online banking. Your record on new technology is five for five, and this one meets you more than halfway.