AMYRA SINGH BASU

Hey, future world leader.

Name: Decoded: Generation AI
Author: Amyra Singh Basu

How much say do you want AI to have in who you become?

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Decoded: Generation AI

For ages 10 to 25+

Published by Pan Macmillan

Foreword by Megan Garcia · TIME 100 AI 2025

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Meet Amyra

Amyra Singh Basu is a young author, researcher and speaker exploring how AI is shaping identity, choice and the next generation.
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01 / About the book

Less panic.
More power.

AI can be useful, weird, creative, unfair, funny, frustrating, and all of the above before lunch. This book helps young people understand the choices inside the machine, then make their own.

Think of it as a FaceTime call with a friend who has done the homework. Bite sized chapters unpack AI's impact on the environment, mental health, education, privacy, bias, filtered reality, and news echo chambers.

Foreword by Megan Garcia, included with her approval.

There are custom remakes of Love Island and The Hunger Games, plus the chapter Not Clickbait: AI Might Actually Be Bad For You. The goal is not to make you anti AI. It is to help you use AI safely, intentionally, and with your own brain switched on.

216 pagesIdeas you can actually use

For ages 10 to 25+Peer to peer, not preachy

PaperbackKindle and paperback

9 Nov 2026Published by Macmillan India

The vibe

Curious, clear, and not here to scare you.

Bring your questions. Bring your group chat screenshots. Bring the part of your brain that asks, “Wait, who benefits from this?”

02 / Why I wrote it

Amyra's
reason.

I wrote this book because I noticed that nobody was offering a full picture, especially not for teenagers and young adults, about the various ways in which AI is impacting the world around us. So, throughout this book, we are going to discuss the sectors that are most heavily being impacted by AI, like the environment, art, mental health, education and more.

“I wrote this book because I noticed that nobody was offering a full picture, especially not for teenagers and young adults, about the various ways in which AI is impacting the world around us. So, throughout this book, we are going to discuss the sectors that are most heavily being impacted by AI, like the environment, art, mental health, education and more.”

03 / Inside the book

Six ideas to
take with you.

Not a glossary. Not a lecture. A set of useful lenses for the stuff your feed, classroom, and future are already asking you to navigate.

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Echo chambers

When the feed keeps reflecting your own point of view back at you.

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AI and mental health

Where support can help, and where a real human matters most.

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Bias

Why “neutral” technology can still make unfair choices.

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Privacy

What your prompts reveal, and what to pause before you share.

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Creativity and originality

Using tools without handing over your voice or your credit.

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Environment

The real world cost of digital convenience, measured honestly.

04 / For readers

Pick your
perspective.

Use the tool. Keep the agency.

Bring this book to your feed, your study group, and your next “is this real?” moment. Start with one chapter and one better question.

Try the mini quiz

Start a conversation, not a surveillance mission.

Use the chapters as conversation starters about privacy, mental health, originality, and what your child wants AI to do for them.

Get conversation starters

Make AI literacy part of the room.

Use the book to open discussion across digital citizenship, media literacy, English, social science, and advisory time.

Request a school talk or classroom copies

Talk about the systems shaping campus life.

Bring a youth perspective to orientation, journalism, tech, ethics, and student wellbeing conversations.

Invite Amyra to campus

05 / About Amyra

The person
behind the prompts.

Amyra Singh Basu

Writer, student, question asker.

Amyra is 16, a junior boarder at The Madeira School, and from Delhi, India. She is a Resident Assistant in North Dorm, newspaper editor, Tech@Madeira member, and karate black belt.

She writes about technology in the place where it is actually lived: between deadlines, dorm rooms, messages, classrooms, and the questions that do not fit neatly into a search box.

16years old

Delhi, Indiahome city

Black beltkarate

Editorstudent newspaper

RANorth Dorm

Tech@Madeiramember

06 / Press and reviews

Say hello to
the press.

For interview requests, review copies, classroom conversations, or a quote check, use the form below.

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Featured in Pune Mirror

For reviewers

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Tell us your outlet, audience, deadline, and preferred format. We will share the approved press kit and availability.

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07 / Events and book tour

Meet the book
in the real world.

Virtual launch conversation
RVSP on whatsapp

09 Nov 2026 / RSVP

08 / Contact and media

Bring a
good question.

Media, school, college, collaboration, and reader messages are welcome. This form is open for media, school, college, collaboration, and reader messages.

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