{"id":71506,"date":"2025-05-03T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71506\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:43:10","slug":"google-is-going-to-let-kids-use-its-gemini-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71506\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is going to let kids use its Gemini AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google is notifying parents using its Family Link parental controls via email that their kids will soon be able to access Gemini AI Apps on their monitored Android devices, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/02\/technology\/google-gemini-ai-chatbot-kids.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The company says kids will be able to use Gemini to do things like help them with homework or read them stories. Like its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/5\/16\/24158484\/google-gemini-ai-workspace-education-school-privacy-accessibility-chromebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Workplace for Education accounts<\/a>, Google says children\u2019s data will not be used to train AI. Still, in the email, Google warns parents that \u201cGemini can make mistakes,\u201d and kids \u201cmay encounter content you don\u2019t want them to see.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In the case of Gemini, Google\u2019s emailed advice says parents should talk to their kids and explain that the AI isn\u2019t human and not to share sensitive information with the chatbot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Kids under 13 will be able to enable and access Gemini all on their own under Google Family Link, which is designed for parents to keep tabs on their kids\u2019 device usage, set limits, and protect them from harmful content. Google spokesperson Karl Ryan confirmed in an email to The Verge that parents can turn off access via Family Link, and that \u201cthey will get an additional notification when the young person accesses Gemini for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is notifying parents using its Family Link parental controls via email that their kids will soon be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,867,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-71506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}