Companion AI: What Parents Need to Know
Children are forming relationships with AI companions. Explore real scenarios, understand the risks, and learn exactly what to say when you need to set healthy boundaries.
Companion AI Risk Explorer
Six scenarios based on patterns reported by families and researchers. Click each scenario to explore what happened, why it matters, and what to do about it.
Healthy Boundaries Scenario Cards
Click each card to flip it and reveal the healthy response, the conversation script, and the boundary to set. Includes what to say and what NOT to say.
Companion AI Boundaries — Summary Card
The Big Picture
Companion AI is not inherently evil, and your child is not broken for wanting to talk to one. These tools tap into a genuine human need for connection, understanding, and non-judgemental listening. The risk is not that your child finds comfort in AI — it is that AI comfort becomes a substitute for the harder, messier, more rewarding work of human relationships. Your job is not to ban, but to ensure AI companionship supplements rather than replaces the real thing.