Safety Spotters offers free online-safety books for children

Safety Spotters, the children’s imprint of UK AI-trust consultancy Verity AI, is giving parents and teachers free ebook copies of its online-safety detective stories for children ages 5 to 14. The giveaway comes as AI deepfakes, cloned voices and scam messages raise new risks for children online.

Why it matters: - AI-generated deception is now cheap enough to reach children directly through fake images, cloned voices and scam messages. - Safety Spotters is using free books to teach children how to spot online clues that something is not what it claims to be. - The offer is meant to remove cost as a barrier for families and schools.

What happened: - Safety Spotters is giving away free ebook copies of its children’s online-safety books at safetyspotters.com/free. - Parents and teachers can choose a book by age band, enter an email address and receive the ebook in their inbox. - The imprint is the children’s arm of UK AI-trust consultancy Verity AI. - The books are aimed at children ages 5 to 14.

The details: - The books are detective stories set in the town of Kettlebridge. - The stories cover private information, photo sharing, scam messages, voice cloning, AI-generated images and critical thinking about machine-made content. - Safety Spotters says the books are grouped into age bands for 5 to 7, 7 to 11 and 11 to 14. - 19 books are live now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback. - First readers receive each new book free before general release. - The imprint asks readers who find the books useful to leave an honest review, but reviews are voluntary. - Safety Spotters says the books contain no live AI and collect no data from children. - The books have no accounts, logins, tracking or chatbots. - Titles and age bands are listed at safetyspotters.com/free.

Between the lines: - The campaign is also a response to an online-safety gap created by newer AI threats that many older materials do not address. - The books aim to build one early habit: pause and check before believing what a child sees or hears. - Sotiris Spyrou, author of the series and founder of Verity AI, said the books were kept free so cost would not block access and so schools could use them without worrying about data collection or hidden terms.

What's next: - Safety Spotters expects families and schools to use the free review copies now and the broader book list as new readers look for age-appropriate material. - The imprint says more first readers will continue to get new releases free ahead of general release. - The giveaway remains open through the online signup page.

The bottom line: - Safety Spotters is betting that children need age-specific, low-friction lessons on AI-era deception, and that free access will help those lessons reach more homes and classrooms.