GuidesMay 22, 202611 min read
A parent's plain-English guide to AI for kids
What AI actually is, what it gets wrong, and how to introduce it to a child without either scaring them or handing over a black box.
Read articleProduct updates, parent guides, and the occasional opinion on what tech for kids should look like.
What AI actually is, what it gets wrong, and how to introduce it to a child without either scaring them or handing over a black box.
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Read articleA practical guide for founders and marketers selling AI products to parents, schools, and brands - when honesty is the only sustainable strategy.
Read articleThe real question in kid-safe AI is not which model you use. It is what safety architecture you wrap around it so that any model can become trustworthy.
Read articleInside the pipeline we use to discover, transcribe, classify, and human-review over a million YouTube videos for kid safety, at a scale humans alone could never reach.
Read articlePersonality makes AI feel warm and trustworthy to children. It also makes attachment, suggestibility, and manipulation easier. Here is how to think about it.
Read articleIf you are shipping AI to anyone under thirteen, run through this list before launch. Every item is something we have seen go wrong in production.
Read articleMost kid AI products today are thin wrappers around a single model with a system prompt and a profanity filter. Real safety architecture looks nothing like that.
Read articleLocking a kids' product to one model is a strategy bet disguised as a technical choice. Here is why model agnosticism is not optional in this category.
Read articleEight principles for designing AI experiences for children , from intuitive self-expression to breakable boundaries and connection to the physical world.
Read articleFive misconceptions that quietly break products, partnerships, and trust when teams treat safety as a checkbox instead of the product itself.
Read articleA practical framework for evaluating child-facing AI , beyond the model itself , across Agent, Interface, Mentors, Shape, and the system conditions that make it viable.
Read articleWhy vibe coding for kids should leave room for curiosity , and why a one-shot generation is a worse experience than a half-finished, remixable one.
Read articleThe next big move for storytelling devices isn't more licensed content , it's becoming the safe, parent-controlled layer between streaming services and kids.
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