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Choose your role, then choose a situation. You will see prepared questions you can copy and take to a visit, a team meeting, or a conversation at home.
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
A way to begin
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?
AI companions and adolescent development
AI companions may affect adolescent development when they become a major setting for learning about trust, boundaries and relationships.
Chatbots producing self-harm content
Unsafe self-harm responses occur when a chatbot encourages, enables or fails to respond appropriately to a person expressing a wish to hurt themselves.
Chatbots on suicidality
Inconsistent crisis responses mean a chatbot's handling of suicidal distress changes unpredictably across wording, context or repeated messages.
AI-mediated cyberbullying
AI-mediated cyberbullying uses generated messages, images or impersonation to harass someone, potentially making abuse more persistent or personal.
These resources offer more detail. Each title opens the original source in a new tab.
Health-specific guidance
World Health Organization
WHO guidance on the ethics and governance of large multimodal models in health.
Use this when considering generative AI in a health or care setting.
The incident record
Responsible AI Collaborative
A collection of reported real-world AI incidents, with links to the underlying reports.
Use this to search for examples or learn how to submit an incident report.
How / when / why
MIT AI Risk Initiative
A way to describe who is involved in a risk, whether it is intentional, and when it arises.
Use this to make a broad concern more specific.