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Five questions to start a family conversation about AI.

For parents, caregivers, and grown-ups who'd rather ask than lecture. Pick your child's age band and a topic; we'll hand you five prompts a kid can answer between bites of pasta. No correct answers — the goal is hearing what your child actually thinks before you share what you think.

1. Your child's age

2. What do you want to talk about?

Pick an age band and a topic to continue.

The premise

Kids are already encountering AI — in classrooms, in homework apps, on YouTube, in their friends' phones. They have opinions about it before grown-ups have started asking. The most useful thing a parent can do is be curious before being instructive.

Each prompt here is one sentence designed to open a conversation without a "correct" answer. They work in the car. They work at dinner. They work on a walk. They do not work as quiz questions.

Companion to the teacher-facing tools: the Thought Experiment Picker, the AI Use Rubric, and the AI Policy Builder. This one's for the dinner table, not the classroom.