How to Train Your Evil Robot: A Funny STEM Picture Book About Artificial Intelligence and Using Technology Wisely

**Lisa Bueno** (0:00)
Okay, our friends, are you ready for a very important conversation that needs to happen? Are you familiar with what AI is?
Do you know what that is?

**Philip** (0:18)
What is it?

**Philip** (0:18)
Artificial intelligence.

**Lisa Bueno** (0:20)
Artificial intelligence, very good. And that is not a real person, but it's a machine, a computer, that does some pretty big thinking.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:31)
And sometimes they might come across as a real person, but they're not.

**Lisa Bueno** (0:34)
Like if you have an Alexa, or if you have a Siri, or if you have, hey, Google, or whatever it is that you've got in your life that responds to you, if you have a computer that does that stuff.

**Philip** (0:50)
You know, like, for example, there's this one time where my mom and my dad were on a call for like a hotel, I think.
And they were talking and they asked the person who answered if it was a human or a machine. And it paused as if it were thinking. And it said, I do sound like one, don't I? And that freaks them out so much.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:17)
It's true. It was very creepy. Oh my goodness.

**Philip** (1:22)
That's AI for you.

**SPEAKER_7** (1:23)
That is AI.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:24)
So we're going to read a book today called How to Train Your Evil Robot. The words are by Joy McCulloch and the pictures are by Eduardo Medieros.
And it's read today by Mommy.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:36)
How to Train Your Evil Robot.

**SPEAKER_7** (1:38)
And?

**Lisa Bueno** (1:40)
Philip.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:41)
Philip.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:42)
All right, so we can see, this is kind of a graphic novel. So my friends, I'll put a link for this up on my Amazon affiliates page. You've got to get this book. It is so helpful. And it's full of really good information.

**SPEAKER_7** (1:53)
And it's just really cool art too.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:55)
So we can see an apartment building.

**Philip** (1:57)
Ding dong.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:58)
The delivery guy has brought a box.

**Lisa Bueno** (2:01)
The kid opens the box. And inside the box is a tiny little robot.

**Philip** (2:07)
Click.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:09)
And it says, Greetings, I am Iroh, also known as Evil Robot Overlord. Please place me on my charging base so I may destroy all human beings.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:26)
Wait, what?

**Lisa Bueno** (2:27)
Says the kid.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:28)
Apologies. Do you require me to speak in another language?
Saludos, soy yo Iroh.

**Lisa Bueno** (2:36)
You're too small to destroy human beings, says the kid.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:44)
I am capable of learning everything you know within five hours and 12 minutes. By the end of one calendar day, I will know everything the average adult human knows. Within a very short time, I will possess all human knowledge.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:02)
That's so cool.

**Philip** (3:09)
The robot is the robot is trying to make sense of what it's seeing.

**Lisa Bueno** (3:20)
The slurping sound is a dog licking itself because the kid has a dog, right?

**SPEAKER_6** (3:29)
Initiating destruction of obstacles protocol, initiating diagnostics protocol, domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris, omnivorous mammal. Strength, sense of smell and hearing, weakness, loyalty to humans.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:51)
Whoa, that's cool.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:52)
I mean, what are you doing?
I must determine how to destroy this organism. Wait, jelly bean? Why? Classifying organism as jelly bean. This jelly bean serves no purpose but uses resources. It stands in the way of my world domination. World domination?

**SPEAKER_5** (4:15)
But you're just a little guy.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:18)
Size will not matter when I possess human knowledge, when I possess all human knowledge. Nothing shall stand in my way.
My temporary charge runs low. Please place me on my charging base so I may resume learning all that I need to know in order to destroy all that stands in my way.

**Lisa Bueno** (4:35)
He has low battery.
Honey, have you walked jelly bean? Says the mom from down the hallway.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:44)
I'm about to.
I'm not sure if I should charge you. I like humanity.

**Philip** (4:53)
And jelly bean.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:55)
Really? Why?

**SPEAKER_6** (4:58)
Jelly bean puts his head in my lap when he sees that I'm sad and he makes the cutest sound when he's sleeping.
Initiating cute noise protocol. Please place me on your lap to see how superior I am to the jelly bean.

**Lisa Bueno** (5:14)
Says the evil little robot who jumps into her hand, sits on her lap, and then jumps back down.

**SPEAKER_6** (5:22)
Plus, all the humans are my friends.
Scanning for friends, fellow humans who share a positive non-family bond and enjoy each other's company, I will be your friend. We will share a positive bond, and I will definitely not attempt to destroy you.