What is that term?
Plain-language definitions for parents, educators, businesses, and policymakers. Each entry explains a term about kids, teens, and AI, what it looks like in real life, and where to go next.
A
- AI and Academic integrity
Schools
Using AI honestly in schoolwork. Following the rules on what help is allowed, being open about AI use, and keeping the thinking your own.
- AI companion
Risks
An AI app designed and built for ongoing personal talk, like a friend or partner, simulate emotional connection and long-term relationships in kids and teens.
- AI hallucination
AI Basics
When an AI tool states something false or made-up as if it were fact, such as an invented quote, source or statistic.
- AI literacy
Schools
The knowledge and skills to understand how AI works, use it responsibly, question its outputs, and recognize its risks and limits.
- AI-generated CSAM
Risks
Sexual images of minors made or altered with AI. They are illegal under US law, should be reported to NCMEC, and should not be kept or forwarded.
C
- Cyberbullying
Risks
Using phones, apps, or AI-generated images and messages to harass, threaten, embarrass, or exclude someone, often a classmate who cannot easily get away.
D
- Deepfake
Risks
A video, image, or audio clip that AI has altered or generated so it looks or sounds as if a real person said or did something they did not.
S
- Sycophancy
Risks
AI sycophancy is when an AI chatbot tells people what they want to hear, agreeing with or flattering them instead of giving honest, accurate answers or pushing back when they're wrong.
V
- Voice cloning
Risks
Using AI to copy a person's voice from a short recording so the copy can say words that person never said.