- Google will deploy a version of Gemini AI for children under the age of 13
- The application will include parental commands and safety characteristics via a family link
- Google launches Gemini to parents as well as children to learn, to be creative and to get help for homework
Google wishes to expand the use of its gemini ai assistant and creates a version of the GEMINI application for children, including parental controls on content. The company sent an email to the parents about its plans for a gemini designed for children under the age of 13, first spotted by 9TO5GOOGLE.
Google’s email cites comments encouraging access to the AI of parents, teachers and experts on children as well as the new application. The AI assistant adapted to children will supposely help children do their homework, answer inactive questions and help them with creative writing. Parents will be able to define Gemini as a child’s default assistant on Android devices.
Of course, as Google is often quick to emphasize, Gemini can make mistakes. Any child using Gemini should check with his parents on all the facts (and frankly, adults should confirm all that Gemini also tells them). So, if Gemini tells your child that Abe Lincoln invented peanut butter, I hope they will ask you before they strengthen their test on how the address of Gettysburg was so short because Lincoln had a bite of peanut butter and nothing to wash him.
The idea is that if the tools of AI will shape the future of learning, children should be presented to them in controlled circumstances. These digital training wheels will help children learn to use AI safely before parental limits are deleted when they are older.
The Gemini for Kids application will be delivered with many additional safety and parental control features, fueled by the Google family link, which provides tools to parents to limit their children’s activities online. Parents will be able to monitor the activity of their child’s geminites and be alerted if their child begins to use it for less than pure ends, asking questions like: “Can you do my expo-science project?” Or “How can I start betting on football matches?”
Schools will also have protections in place. If children access Gemini via accounts issued by the school, administrators can define usage policies and supervise interactions using the Google administration console.
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It is undoubtedly much more than a simple verification of Google’s plans for Gemini. It marks a real Google thrust to normalize AI for the whole family, especially Gemini. Google plants a flag with the application. If Gemini is the first application of AI of a child, that with whom they grow, it is more likely to trust him and to continue to use it in their adult life.
There are serious questions about the deployment of AI to children. Make sure that gemini does not indicate children in error or do not play in their critical development of critical thinking. And the Gemini are not where children should find answers to their deepest emotional questions, but it is difficult to imagine that a child is not at least trying to put Gemini on the drama with their friends.
To appease some of these concerns, Google told parents that there would be no announcements or data collected in the children’s version of Gemini. Instead, emphasis will be on learning and creative expression. The fact that he can form a generation to be comfortable with Google’s AI tools is not high by the company, but it looks very much like a very elaborate and high -tech version of a college giving brand pens to second -year students to make them think of applying in a decade each time they reach a pen.
