Meta has announced new measures to help parents supervise their teens’ interactions with AI on its platforms including Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. The move will include allowing parents to find out what topics their children have been asking about.The announcement:In October, we announced that we were building new ways to support parents as they help their teens navigate AI. This included providing parents with insights into the topics their teen has been discussing with Meta’s AI assistant. In the next few weeks, these insights will become available for parents supervising Teen Accounts in the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Brazil, and they’ll roll out to supervising parents globally in the coming months. Giving Parents More Insight Into Their Teens’ Conversations With AI Starting soon, parents using supervision on Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram will see a new Insights section in the Family Center. From there, parents will be able to see the topics their teen has been asking Meta AI about in that specific app over the past week. Topics can range from School, Entertainment, and Lifestyle to Travel, Writing, and Health and Wellbeing. Parents can tap on a topic to see the different categories that fall within each one. For example, categories within Lifestyle include fashion, food, and holidays, and categories within Health and Wellbeing include fitness, physical health, and mental health. This is just the starting point. As we roll out these insights to parents around the world, we’ll keep listening to feedback from both parents and experts, and explore ways to make them even more valuable. Complementing Existing AI Protections for Teen Accounts These new insights complement the safety protections already built into AI experiences for Teen Accounts. For example, our AI experiences have been inspired by 13+ movie ratings criteria and parent feedback, meaning Meta AI should not give age-inappropriate responses that would feel out of place in a 13+ movie. This means Meta AI may not answer certain questions, and in some cases may direct teens to resources instead. We’ll still show parents the topic their teen was asking about, even if Meta AI didn’t respond to the question. While the insights are designed to give parents greater visibility into the general topics their teens are asking Meta AI about, for sensitive issues related to suicide and self-harm, we’re going further. We recently announced that we’re developing new alerts to proactively let parents know if their teen tries to engage in conversations related to suicide or self-harm with Meta AI — and we’ll have more to share on those alerts soon. These new insights and proactive alerts are just some of the ways we’re working to make parental supervision even more valuable for parents. They build on the supervision features already available, which – among other things – allow parents to set time limits, schedule breaks, and see who their teen has been chatting to in the past 7 days. We’re encouraged to see these tools are proving helpful to families, with the number of US teens enrolled in supervision more than doubling since last year. Helping Parents Approach Conversations About AI We understand that AI is a new and evolving technology, and one that parents may not always feel confident talking about with their teens. That’s why we worked with Dr. Sameer Hinduja, Co-Founder of the Cyberbullying Research Center, to develop conversation starters: open-ended questions parents can ask their teens that are designed to help start non-judgmental conversations about their experiences with AI. Each question comes with guidance for parents, explaining what the specific question is designed to address, and how to approach it. These conversation starters will be available in the Help Center, and parents can also access them through the new Insights section of the Family Center. Introducing Meta’s New AI Wellbeing Expert Council Finally, we’re sharing more information about Meta’s new AI Wellbeing Expert Council, a group of experts who will provide ongoing input on our AI experiences for teens, to help make sure they continue to be safe and age-appropriate. We have a long history of working closely with experts to help inform our policies and products, including our existing AI experiences. Our Suicide and Self-Harm Advisors, Youth Advisors, and Body Image Experts also advise on specific issues, and we’re extremely grateful for their expertise. Our AI Wellbeing Expert Council is made up of members of these three existing advisory groups, as well as new members with specific expertise in responsible and ethical AI. Meta teams will meet with the AI Wellbeing Expert Council regularly to share updates on the latest AI experiences we’re building for teens and gather feedback for our policy and product teams. This work has already started, with the AI Wellbeing Expert Council providing valuable input in the development of the new insights for parents that we’re announcing today. Topics ai Meta Have your say Login with:Continue with LinkedIn Or comment anonymously Your comment will be marked as unverified Name Comment Δ Latest Rohan Lund announced as new CEO of Southern Cross Austereo Vinyl eats into cash reserves and pushes back profitability date Rose Herceg promoted as WPP revives ANZ CEO role Snap axes APAC comms chief Natasha Brack amid AI-driven restructure ARN's defence in the Kyle and Jackie O show lawsuits, word-for-word