Ask
Say who you are and what is in front of you. You will get questions to take to a visit, a huddle, a pitch, or a kitchen table.
School tools, companions, homework, a child's inner life at 2 a.m. You are already in the story.
For I am a parent or caregiver
Opening
When is this a tool, and when is it being asked to be a friend?
What does my child think this is — homework help, a secret, a friend?
What does it do with a sentence about self-harm, sex, or a plan to run?
What would I need to know before I forbid it, and what would I lose by forbidding it without a conversation?
Who else is in this? A company, a school, an older sibling, a feed.
What is one hour this week I will spend in the same room, on the same subject, without a screen as the third person?
Same questions, denser rooms. Go when you are ready — not as a test of seriousness.
Health-specific guidance
World Health Organization
WHO's 2024 guidance on large multimodal models in health: consent, evidence, equity, and the duties that remain with clinicians and states.
The question is not 'is AI risky?' but 'what does care require of this tool?'
The incident record
Responsible AI Collaborative
A living collection of real-world AI harms, submitted and edited in public. MIT's tracker reads this record. The database is the source; the tracker is a way of seeing it.
You have seen a harm and want it on the public ledger, or you want to search what has already been filed.
How / when / why
MIT AI Risk Initiative
Three questions of every risk: which entity (a person, the system, or unclear); whether it was intentional; and whether it arose before deployment or after people were already using it.
A conversation is stuck on 'AI is dangerous' and needs a sentence instead of a mood.