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Sixteen-year-old Sumathi has a college essay due Monday - and a secret: an AI wrote it, and she can't bring herself to press submit. Her brother uses AI daily and can't explain it. Her father, a software engineer, is quietly bothered that he trusts a system he doesn't understand. Her mother has been using it for months without telling anyone - including the night it got her mother's medication wrong. And her grandfather, a retired professor writing a book on leadership, believes there's a helpful librarian on the other side of the screen.
Then, one Friday evening in Phoenix, an old family friend comes to dinner: Dr. Navya Chandrasekhar, an AI researcher who has spent her life inside the machines everyone else is guessing about. Over rasam and filter coffee, one question at a time, she takes the family from "what is this thing?" to how it reads, how it learns, why it lies with such confidence - and whether anyone is home behind the words. By Saturday morning, they understand the most consequential technology of our time. So will you.
