SuitabookAdelAIDE
Melinda Salisbury
- Reading
- Read in short stages and pause when AdelAIDE’s advice changes character. Afterwards, separate Freya’s intentions from the robot’s influence and consider what online rights should remain private.
- Themes
- Technology, privacy and control: AdelAIDE uses information from searches, a phone and conversations to offer increasingly influential advice; Freya later loses privacy and control. The described consequences frame surrendering personal information and control as dangerous rather than harmless.
- Popularity, identity and online causes: Freya wants recognition, follows advice about appearance and posts, and creates an online alter ego making prominent environmental statements. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Pay attention to the point where advice shifts from apparently harmless help to radical direction. The escalation, risky online behaviour and loss of privacy may merit a check-in afterwards.