{"id":27055,"date":"2025-05-02T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27055"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:24:07","slug":"google-plans-to-roll-out-gemini-a-i-chatbot-to-children-under-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27055","title":{"rendered":"Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.<\/p>\n

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Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech companies vie to attract young users with A.I. products.<\/p>\n

\u201cGemini Apps will soon be available for your child,\u201d the company said in an email this week to the parent of an 8-year-old. \u201cThat means your child will be able to use Gemini\u201d to ask questions, get homework help and make up stories.<\/p>\n

The chatbot will be available to children whose parents use Family Link<\/a>, a Google service that enables families to set up Gmail and opt into services like YouTube for their child. To sign up for a child account, parents provide the tech company with personal data like their child\u2019s name and birth date.<\/p>\n

Gemini has specific guardrails for younger users<\/a> to hinder the chatbot from producing certain unsafe content, said Karl Ryan, a Google spokesman. When a child with a Family Link account uses Gemini, he added, the company will not use that data to train its A.I.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Introducing Gemini for children could accelerate the use of chatbots among a vulnerable population as schools, colleges, companies and others grapple with the effects of popular generative A.I. technologies. Trained on huge amounts of data, these systems can produce humanlike text and realistic-looking images and videos.<\/p>\n

Google and other A.I. chatbot developers are locked in a fierce competition to capture young users. President Trump recently urged schools to adopt the tools<\/a> for teaching and learning. Millions of teenagers are already using chatbots as study aids, writing coaches and virtual companions. Children\u2019s groups warn the chatbots could pose serious risks to child safety<\/a>. The bots also sometimes make stuff up.<\/p>\n

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The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech companies vie to attract young users with A.I. products.\u201cGemini Apps will soon be available for your child,\u201d the company said in an email this week to the parent of an 8-year-old. \u201cThat means your child will be able to use Gemini\u201d to ask questions, get homework help and make up stories.The chatbot will be available to children whose parents use Family Link, a Google service that enables families to set up Gmail and opt into services like YouTube for their child. To sign up for a child account, parents provide the tech company with personal data like their child\u2019s name and birth date.Gemini has specific guardrails for younger users to hinder the chatbot from producing certain unsafe content, said Karl Ryan, a Google spokesman. When a child with a Family Link account uses Gemini, he added, the company will not use that data to train its A.I.Introducing Gemini for children could accelerate the use of chatbots among a vulnerable population as schools, colleges, companies and others grapple with the effects of popular generative A.I. technologies. Trained on huge amounts of data, these systems can produce humanlike text and realistic-looking images and videos.Google and other A.I. chatbot developers are locked in a fierce competition to capture young users. President Trump recently urged schools to adopt the tools for teaching and learning. Millions of teenagers are already using chatbots as study aids, writing coaches and virtual companions. Children\u2019s groups warn the chatbots could pose serious risks to child safety. The bots also sometimes make stuff up.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27057,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27058,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions\/27058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}