AI, without the panic
The more comfortable you are with AI, the easier it is to help your kids use it well. Start with twenty minutes on your own, then bring it home.
- Understand it
What a chatbot is actually doing, in about ten minutes.
- Try it yourself
Eight small exercises on your own account.
- Bring it home
What to try at your child’s age, and five rules for every age.
Start with you
Twenty minutes on your own makes every later conversation easier.- AI, explained for parentsWhat a chatbot is actually doing, what it is good and bad at, and where your kids already meet it.
- Try AI yourself in 20 minutesEight small exercises on your own account, before you try it with your child.
- Spotting AI fakesCloned voices, made-up pictures, and fake videos, and the habits that catch them.
Bring it home
- Use AI together, by ageWhat to try at each age, the rules that hold at every age, and a short family agreement.
- AI and schoolworkHelp that teaches instead of help that replaces, and what to do if a school says your child cheated.
- Lesson: Use AI with judgmentA short Parent Academy lesson with a low-risk task to try together.
When it goes wrong
- AI and your kid: the real risksCompanion apps, nudify apps, and kids believing what a chatbot says.
- AI and the lawWhat the law now says, including about AI-made sexual images of children.
- Someone made or shared images of my childDo not pay. Do not delete. Report. The first steps, in order.
For your kids to read
- How AI actually worksWritten for kids: it is guessing the next word, and that is why it gets things wrong.
- Using AI the smart wayWritten for kids: five rules, and what to do if a chatbot gets weird.