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The Family AI Safety Kit

A four step path for parents and teachers to move from worry to steady habits, inspired by the MIT research on catching harmful AI. Work through one phase at a time. Check the boxes, fill the notes, then print or save this page.

Seed . 5 to 15 min

Understand the landscape

Get your bearings

Read the blog post that inspired this kit and jot the one fact that surprised you most. Say this out loud until it feels true: AI safety is ongoing inspection, not a one time wall. Name the AI tools already in your home or classroom. You cannot guide what you have not named.

Sprout . 15 to 20 min

Start the conversation

Open the door

Ask your child or students: what is the coolest thing you have seen AI make, and the weirdest. Agree on one rule together: nothing you stumble into online is too shameful to mention to me. Practice a calm response to a scary find, so the first reaction is not panic or punishment.

Grow . 20 to 30 min

Set up the safeguards

Build the habits

Turn on the safety and content settings on the two AI tools you named in the Seed step. Set a weekly check in, ten minutes, to ask what they made and saw with AI this week. Decide where AI use happens in shared space, not behind a closed door, for younger kids.

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Make it stick and share it

Write your Family AI Agreement

Draft three promises: one for the kids, one for the adults, one for all of us. Sign it together and post it where the devices live. Share your best rule with the Harvest Kernel community so another family can borrow it.

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