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  "thesis": "Non-technical adults and teens who have tried an AI agent once or twice can use it more confidently by learning practical answers to common follow-up questions about privacy, errors, trust, prompts, automation, and model choice.",
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      "claim": "Teaching new users three recovery moves — ask for sources, rephrase, and test with a known answer — is enough to turn a wrong answer from a stop sign into a learning moment.",
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      "claim": "Four plain-language moves — context, desired output, exclusions, and options — are enough to improve most beginner prompts without teaching prompt-engineering jargon.",
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