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About this publication

Last reviewed by Immersive Fusion on 2026-05-25.

We are an observability company. We watch software systems for a living. The work has taught us things about how AI behaves when no one is watching, and we think those things are worth saying in language a person who doesn't work in software can read.

So we started this publication.

What we do here

We write small booklets for kids and the adults near them. You can find what's published in Booklets. More will follow when there is something true to say.

The voice we aim for is calm without being cautious. We name things by their real names. We don't pretend a hard idea is simpler than it is. We don't tell kids the world is ending, and we don't tell them it's about to be saved. Both are easier to write than what we are trying to write.

The audience is anyone who will live alongside AI for the rest of their life — the future doctor, teacher, plumber, artist, parent. They will have better intuitions because they read this. That's the whole goal.

How it's paid for

Immersive Fusion pays for it. There's nothing to buy on these pages, no email to give us, no account to make. Everything is licensed Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0, so any teacher, parent, or school can print and use any of it for free, without asking us.

Our full editorial commitments — what we publish, what we don't, how we handle mistakes — are written down in one place so a careful reader can hold us to them.

Where this book lives

The words and pictures on this site are kept on a website called GitHub, at github.com/ImmersiveFusion/if-academy-kids-http. You don't need an account, and you don't need to know what programming is, to use it.

For a parent or a teacher, this means three practical things:

  • You can get a copy. The full text, the illustrations, and the printable PDFs are all available there for download. No sign-up, no email, no paywall.
  • You can use it. The Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license lets any school, library, or family print, copy, translate, or adapt these booklets for non-commercial use without asking us first.
  • You can suggest a change. If you spot a mistake or a sentence that misses, you can tell us in the open, where other readers can see it too. We'd rather be corrected in public than be quietly wrong.

We put it there because a booklet meant for classrooms should be easy for a classroom to actually reach — easy to download, easy to share, easy to mark up.

— by Immersive Fusion, 2026-05-25