Parenting and Child Safety Artificial Intelligence Resource Guide

Parenting in an AI-Generative Society can be a challenge, to say the least. Navigating chatbots, phones, and gaming consoles can be exhausting. What do you do as a parent to protect your children, shelter them, yet let them grow through safe use of technology? In the world of deep fake digital abuse, grooming through virtual platforms, and rising youth suicide rates, artificial intelligence (AI) consumption can be quite daunting. Do you resist its use altogether, or do you partner with AI for the good of society?

Moral and ethical questions where a parent must search their hearts, draw on past experiences, and seek the insight of others to determine a course of action, set boundaries by placing guardrails, and, as Christians, seek the Holy Spirit for guidance. This pocket guidebook is designed to help you educate yourselves on AI, work together with your children, and partner to ensure its safe use in your home. As we move forward, we will define AI, understand the risks, and know where to turn for help. This book is not exhaustive, not meant to be a comprehensive dive into AI use in children, but only a brush stroke, to start the conversation, and hopefully drive you to read the main book in this series, "Ensuring Humanity Is Not Lost in an AI Generative Society: A Christian's Guide to Artificial Intelligence."

As always, you must make your own decisions regarding AI use and your children, but do educate yourselves thoroughly on the topic, its dangers, and how to protect the most vulnerable from harm.