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Plain-English explanations of how AI works and what it means for family life.
This section collects 4 pieces on Understanding AI, including reviews, reported notes and practical guidance.
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Between half and two-thirds of school-age children have tried an AI chatbot, according to recent US and UK surveys. Here is what the numbers cover, why they differ, and what they cannot tell you about your child.
A former Google trust and safety chief says AI could harm children more than social media did. Here is what the evidence actually supports, why the two are different problems, and what that changes for you at home.
Most of what is sold to parents as teaching kids about AI is prompting. The research says the skill children are missing is judgment: they cannot reliably tell a machine's work from a person's. Here is what to teach at each age, the words to say, and what school has not reached yet.
You do not need to understand how AI works to parent well around it. Here are the five things that matter, the jargon you can skip, and what to say to your child by age.
