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Schools

The rules for honest schoolwork when AI can write, solve, or summarize, including which help is allowed and which help counts as cheating.

Risks

Product features built to maximize time spent, such as infinite scroll, autoplay, streaks, and notifications that are hard for kids to put down.

Safety & Design

Designing digital products around a child's developmental stage, with high-privacy defaults and no features that exploit how young users think or click.

AI Basics

Software that produces a reply, a prediction, or a piece of media from patterns in data, instead of following only a fixed script a person wrote line by line.

Schools

A school rule that lists which AI uses are allowed, which must be cited, and which are prohibited, written so students and teachers can follow it.

AI Basics

An AI system that can take actions to finish a task, such as searching, clicking, or sending a message, instead of only writing an answer in the chat.

Risks

An AI app built for ongoing personal talk, like a friend or partner, that can build emotional attachment in kids and teens.

Schools

Software that estimates whether text or images were made by AI. The estimates are often unreliable and should not be the only evidence used to judge a student.

Safety & Design

Clearly telling someone they are talking to an AI, or looking at AI-generated content, rather than a human or an unedited recording.

Safety & Design

An AI product shaped for children, with an adult on the account, age-matched replies, and limits a parent can see, rather than a general chatbot.

Safety & Design

AI tools used by teenagers, including homework help and open chat. The adult question is who holds the account and whether a parent can still read it.

Risks

A chatbot built to act as a romantic partner, boyfriend, or girlfriend, often with memory, flirting, and no parent view of the chat.

Schools

Who decides how an AI system is used, which limits apply, and who can check the result, including a school admin or a parent on a child's account.

Safety & Design

The rules and filters that limit what an AI system will say or do, such as blocking harmful topics or redirecting risky conversations.

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.

Risks

A scam that uses a cloned voice or a fake video of someone you know, often a child who sounds hurt, to pressure a family into sending money.

Schools

The knowledge and skills to understand how AI works, use it responsibly, question its outputs, and recognize its risks and limits.

Schools

Teaching students in class how AI works, when they may use it, how to question an answer, and what they still have to do themselves.

AI Basics

The trained system that turns a prompt into an output, such as text or an image. The app around it sets the account, the limits, and who can see the result.

Safety & Design

Using software to watch or flag what a child does with an AI tool, including a parent reading chats or getting an alert when a conversation needs an adult.

Schools

A school's or organization's written rules for when people may use AI, what must be disclosed, and how student or customer data is handled.

Safety & Design

What an AI tool collects from a prompt or a chat, who can see it, and whether that data is sold, used for ads, or used to train another model.

Schools

Whether a school has the people, rules, and tools in place before students use AI, including training, a written policy, and a way to see sessions.

Safety & Design

A process for finding and reducing ways an AI system could cause harm, including privacy, bias, and safety, before and after it ships.

Risks

Using an AI chatbot to act out characters or scenarios, from a story or a game to an ongoing personal role that can feel like a relationship.

Safety & Design

The work of reducing harm from an AI system: dangerous replies, sexual content, distress that never reaches an adult, and tools a child should not have.

Schools

How a school AI tool handles student records and what students type, including who can see a session and whether chats are sold or used to train a model.

Risks

Apps that use AI chatbots for emotional or mental health support. They are not a substitute for a licensed professional, especially for kids.

Schools

An AI tool that helps a student learn a subject by explaining, questioning, and practicing, rather than only returning a finished answer.

Safety & Design

A hidden or visible mark added to AI-generated text, images, or audio so a tool can later tell that the content was made with AI.

Schools

Turning in AI-written work as your own, or using an AI tool in a way the assignment forbids, so the student cannot explain what they submitted.

Schools

Using an AI tool to help a student understand a step, while the student still does the work, instead of pasting a finished answer they cannot explain.

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.

Risks

False or misleading content created or spread with AI, including fake articles, invented citations, and realistic images of events that did not happen.

Risks

When an AI system produces unfair or skewed results for some groups of people, often because the examples it learned from were incomplete or unbalanced.

Laws & Policy

State laws that tell app stores to check a user's age and get a parent's consent before a minor downloads an app.

Laws & Policy

Body-based information used to identify someone, such as a face scan, a fingerprint, or a voiceprint. A photo is not always a biometric.

Risks

A chatbot in the role-play and companion-style category, where people talk with fictional characters and a parent often cannot read the chat.

AI Basics

A computer program that holds a text or voice conversation with a person. Modern chatbots use AI to generate each reply instead of reading from a fixed script.

Safety & Design

A structured review of how a product or policy could affect children's rights, safety, and wellbeing, done before launch and updated over time.

Laws & Policy

A US law requiring schools and libraries that receive federal E-rate discounts to adopt an internet safety policy and filter harmful content on their computers.

Laws & Policy

A US federal law requiring online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting their personal information.

Safety & Design

A control that blocks sexual, graphic, or other off-limits material in an app or chatbot, including what people call NSFW content. Filters help and can fail.

Safety & Design

Reviewing what people post or what an AI generates, with automated filters, human reviewers, or both, and removing or limiting harmful material.

Safety & Design

Information attached to a photo, video, or audio file that records where it came from and whether it was edited or made with AI, such as Content Credentials.

Laws & Policy

A House-passed proposal inside the KIDS Act to extend children's privacy rules to teens under 18 and limit individual-specific ads. Not law yet.

Safety & Design

The steps an AI product takes when someone signals distress, such as showing a crisis line and alerting an adult, without calling emergency services itself.

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.

Risks

Design tricks that push people into choices they did not intend, such as hidden opt-outs, guilt-trip buttons, and confusing privacy settings.

Safety & Design

How long a service keeps personal data, such as a child's chat history, before it deletes that data or the account ends.

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.

Schools

The skills and habits for using technology safely, kindly, and honestly, including how to check AI, protect privacy, and treat other people online.

Safety & Design

A healthy relationship with technology that supports sleep, relationships, learning, and mental health, rather than crowding those parts of life out.

Laws & Policy

The European Union law that sorts AI by risk, with stricter duties for some high-risk uses, including listed education systems.

Risks

AI that puts one person's face on another person's body in a photo or video, including in filters and joke apps that kids already open.

Laws & Policy

A US law that gives parents rights over their child's education records at school, and limits when a school or its vendors may share those records.

Laws & Policy

The debate over whether federal law should override state AI rules. Talks in 2026 tied that idea to kids' safety. This page cites no enacted preemption.

Laws & Policy

A Federal Trade Commission study, using Section 6(b) orders, of consumer AI chatbots that act as companions and how they affect children and teens.

AI Basics

AI that creates new text, images, audio or video in response to a prompt, such as chatbots and image generators.

Laws & Policy

Georgia's enacted rules for AI companion chatbots, including disclosures and protections for minors, with duties that start on July 1, 2027.

Laws & Policy

Georgia's 2024 social-media law for minors. Key platform age and consent rules are enjoined. School-policy duties are a separate piece of the same bill.

Laws & Policy

A pending Senate bill, S. 3062, that would set age checks and disclosures for AI chatbots and limit companion-style chatbots for minors. Not law.

Schools

Homework help where the AI explains the next step and asks the student to try it, in a Socratic style, instead of handing over a finished answer to paste.

Safety & Design

Keeping a person, such as a parent, teacher, or reviewer, able to see, stop, or approve what an AI system does before the result is final.

Laws & Policy

Idaho's Conversational AI Safety Act, Senate Bill 1297, signed in March 2026 and effective July 1, 2027, enforced by the attorney general.

Risks

Things bought inside an app or game, such as upgrades, coins, or subscriptions, that kids can rack up without realizing the cost.

Laws & Policy

Iowa's conversational AI law, Senate File 2417. The enrolled act says it applies July 1, 2027, and bars presenting the bot as licensed mental health care.

Risks

Trying to trick an AI tool into ignoring its safety rules, something curious kids and teens often try. This page includes no bypass prompts.

Safety & Design

AI tools built for children from the start, with age-appropriate replies, content limits, less data collection, and a parent or educator who can see use.

Laws & Policy

A proposed US law that would require many platforms to use default safety settings, parental tools, and design changes for minors. Not law yet.

Safety & Design

A public benchmark for testing how an AI product handles child-safety prompts. A published score only means what the tester and the method actually covered.

AI Basics

A large language model is an AI system trained on huge amounts of text so it can predict a likely next word and write a fluent reply to a prompt.

Laws & Policy

A pending Senate bill, S. 3063, that would have schools post certain ed-tech contracts before signing and vendors certify student-privacy compliance. Not law.

AI Basics

A branch of AI in which computers learn patterns from data so they can make predictions or decisions, instead of following a rule a person wrote for every case.

Safety & Design

A library of apps, games, and projects that kids build inside an AI product, where a public share stays off until a parent approves it.

Laws & Policy

The youngest age a company states in its terms for an AI tool, often 13 or 18, with under-13 use also raising COPPA duties.

AI Basics

AI that can take in or produce more than one kind of content, such as text, images, voice, and video, in the same session.

Laws & Policy

Nebraska's Conversational Artificial Intelligence Safety Act, part of LB 525, approved in April 2026, with those sections operative July 1, 2027.

Laws & Policy

New York's rules for AI companions that simulate a relationship, including a crisis protocol and a notice that the user is not talking with a person.

Risks

Sexual or intimate images shared without the pictured person's consent, including real photos and fakes made or edited with AI.

Risks

Apps and sites that use AI to create fake nude images from ordinary photos of real people, including students, without their consent.

Risks

When an adult builds trust with a child online in order to exploit them, often by steering the child to keep the relationship secret from parents.

Laws & Policy

Oregon's AI companion law, Senate Bill 1546, with a notice when a chat feels human and a protocol for suicidal ideation. Effective January 1, 2027.

Risks

A one-sided emotional bond with a persona, now including an AI chatbot, that feels mutual to the person even though the bot has no inner life.

Safety & Design

The parent side of a family AI account, where an adult can read each child's chats, set topic limits, and approve what that child shares publicly.

Safety & Design

Settings that let parents shape and monitor how a child uses an AI tool, such as topic limits, time limits and conversation visibility.

Laws & Policy

Any information that can identify a specific person, including a name, home address, photo, voice recording, school, or device ID.

Safety & Design

Setting a product's strongest privacy options as the starting point, so a child or parent does not have to find a menu and change them.

AI Basics

The question, instruction, or example a person types or says to an AI tool to get a response, including the details that steer what comes back.

Safety & Design

Messages a parent gets when an AI product flags a conversation that may need an adult, by email, text, in the app, or in a daily digest.

Safety & Design

Building and using AI so that it is safe, fair, transparent, private, and accountable to the people it affects, including children.

Laws & Policy

A House chatbot bill, H.R. 6489, folded into the House-passed KIDS Act package. It would add disclosures and safety rules for minors. Not law.

Safety & Design

Building protections into a product from the start, such as who can see a child's chat, instead of adding a safety setting after people get hurt.

Safety & Design

Time spent on phones, tablets, computers, and TVs. For kids and teens, quality and type of use matter as much as total minutes.

Laws & Policy

A US federal law that largely shields online platforms from liability for content another user posts. How it applies to AI-written replies is still debated.

Risks

A form of online exploitation in which someone threatens to share sexual images of a person, often a teen, unless they pay money or send more images.

Risks

Parents posting photos, videos, names, and stories about their children online, which can cost those children privacy and feed later misuse.

Schools

A contract between a school or district and an edtech vendor that sets how student data may be collected, used, stored, shared, and deleted.

AI Basics

Any image, video, audio, or text created or heavily altered by AI, from a harmless filter or avatar to a harmful deepfake of a real person.

Laws & Policy

A US law against publishing nonconsensual intimate images, including AI forgeries, that tells covered platforms to remove a valid report within 48 hours.

Risks

Showing ads to children based on personal data, behavior, or a profile, a practice several privacy laws limit or ban for kids.

Safety & Design

Account types often aimed at roughly ages 13-17, with stricter default settings, content limits, and tools a parent is offered.

Laws & Policy

Tennessee's 2026 ban on advertising or representing that an AI system is, or can act as, a qualified mental health professional. Effective July 1, 2026.

AI Basics

The large collection of text, images, or other content an AI model learns from, which shapes what it can say and which patterns it repeats.

Safety & Design

The teams, policies, and tools an online service uses to reduce abuse, fraud, and harmful content and to respond when someone is in danger.

Laws & Policy

The UK's Age Appropriate Design Code: 15 standards online services likely to be used by children must follow to protect their data and privacy.

Laws & Policy

Utah's 2025 rules for mental health chatbots that use AI, including disclosure that the chatbot is not a human. Separate from the app-store age law.

Safety & Design

AI that a school can steer so replies follow that school's stated mission, instead of one default voice for every campus.

Laws & Policy

The process a service uses to confirm that a real parent has approved collecting their child's personal information, as COPPA requires for kids under 13.

Risks

Using AI to copy a person's voice from a short recording so the copy can say words that person never said.

Laws & Policy

Washington's companion-chatbot statute, Chapter 168 of 2026, with disclosure rules and extra duties for minors. It takes effect January 1, 2027.

AI Basics

A search tool built for kids that looks up pages and shows the sources, so a child can open the page instead of trusting a summary alone.

Safety & Design

An AI product one company builds and another business offers under its own name, inside its own app, school, or venue.