Google plans to launch their artificial gemini intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have Google accounts administered by parents, since technological companies compete to attract young users with artificial intelligence products.
“Gemini’s applications will soon be advanced for your child,” the company said in an email this week to the parents of an 8 -year -old boy. “That, bad, your child can use Gemini” to ask questions, get help from task and makeup stories.
The chatbot will be greedy for children whose parents use the family link, a Google service that allows families to configure Gmail and opt for services such as YouTube for their child. To register with a children’s account, parents provide the technology company with personal data such as the name and date of their child’s birth.
Gemini has specific railings for younger users to prevent chatbot from producing a certain insecure content, said Karl Ryan, a Google spokesman. When a child with a family link account Usa Gemini, he added, the company will not use that data to train its AI AI
The introduction of Gemini for children could accelerate the use of chatbots between a vulnerable population such as schools, conferences, companies and others deal with the effects of popular generative technologies. Trained in large quantities of data, thesis systems can produce human text and realistic -looking images and videos.
Google and other AI chatbot developers are blocked in a fierce competition to capture young users. President Trump recently urged schools to adopt tools for teaching and learning. Millions of teenagers are already using chatbots such as study aid, writing coaches and virtual partners. Groups of children warn that chatbots could present serious risks for child safety. Bots also sometimes invent things.
UNICEF, the United Nations Agency for children and other children’s groups have noticed that AI systems could confuse, misinform and manipulate young children who can understand that chatbots are not human.
“The generative AI has produced dangerous content,” said UNICEF’s global research office in a publication on risks and opportunities for children.
Google recognized some risks in their email to families this week, alerting parents that “Gemini can make mistakes” and suggestion that “help their child to think critically” about chatbot.
Email also recommended that parents teach their child how to verify the gemini responses. And the company suggested that parents remind their child that “Gemini is not human” and “does not enter sensitive or personal information in Gemini.”
Despite the company’s efforts to filter inappropriate material, added email, children “can find content they don’t want to see.”
At the years, technological giants have developed a variety of products, characteristics and safeguards for adolescents and children. In 2015, Google presented YouTube Kids, an independent video application for children that is popular among families with young children.
Other efforts to attract children online caused Conerns of children’s government officials and defenders. In 2021, Meta stopped the plans for the Instagram Kids service, a version of its Instagram application for those children under 13, after the general prosecutors of several boxes are sending a letter to the company that said the firm platform.
Some prominent technology companies, including Google, Amazon and Microsoft-Han paid multimillionaire fines to resolve government complaints that violated the children’s online privacy protection law. This federal law requires that online services aimed at children obtain permission from a father before collecting personal information, such as a housing or selfie address, of a child under 13 years.
Under the deployment of Gemini, children with Google accounts managed by the family could access the chatbot on their own. But the company said it would alert parents and that parents could administer their son’s chatbot configuration, “including off.”
“Your child can soon access Gemini applications,” said the company’s email to parents. “We will also let him know when his son access Gemini for the first time.”
Mr. Ryan, the Google spokesman said that the approach to provide Gemini for young users complied with the Federal Online Privacy Law for children.
