AI on the Front Porch: A Family Bridge for Understanding Artificial Intelligence
FrontPorchAI is a plainspoken family education resource for helping skeptical, rural, faith-shaped, practical, or family-centered readers understand AI without fear, hype, or blind trust.
Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20466505
AI is not replacing my heart; it is helping me use my heart better — when I keep truth, love, privacy, humility, and human responsibility in charge.
- Interactive JSX companion experience
- Full v1.0 community bridge paper source
- Printable family handout source
- Prompt cards for safe first use
- Truth-check ladder
- Privacy and safety boundaries
- Family night walkthrough
npm install
npm run devnpm run build
npm run previewThis repo includes a GitHub Pages workflow in .github/workflows/deploy.yml.
After the first push:
- Go to Settings → Pages.
- Set Source to GitHub Actions.
- Run the deploy workflow or push to
main.
The generated DOCX/PDF release files are available in docs/downloads/ and attached to the GitHub v1.0 release.
Release assets:
FrontPorchAI_v1.0_Community_Bridge_Paper.pdfFrontPorchAI_v1.0_Community_Bridge_Paper.docxFrontPorchAI_v1.0_Family_Handout.pdfFrontPorchAI_v1.0_Family_Handout.docx
This is an educational resource / position paper, not a scientific study. It is designed to help families have better conversations about AI while keeping human responsibility at the center.
This resource was human-directed and human-owned by Michael W. Hughes. AI assistance was used for drafting, organizing, refinement, and review. Final responsibility remains human.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) is recommended if you want people to share and adapt this resource with attribution.
Hughes, Michael W. (2026). AI on the Front Porch: A Family Bridge for Understanding Artificial Intelligence (v1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20466505
AI can help, but it does not rule.