We ensure our generative AI tools for youth are supervised and secure, integrating safety, security, and ethical considerations throughout our development lifecycle. Our teams conduct specialized adversarial testing and red-teaming to probe AI models for vulnerabilities and build strong safeguards against content that could pose physical or psychological harm. To further those safeguards, we perform automatic evaluations and safety fine-tuning to mitigate young audiences from forming unhealthy personal attachments to generative AI tools and products.

Added protection for minors in Gemini Apps

Towards Responsible Development of Generative AI for Education
Our work with learners and educators to translate high level principles from learning science into pragmatic educational benchmarks for educational Generative AI models.

Gemini for Education
A hub for educators with access to AI models that help with lesson planning and personalized lesson support.

Digital experiences are a foundational part of children’s and teens’ everyday lives. We support evidence-based regulation that protects kids and teens in the digital world, not from it. With appropriate safeguards, we can empower young people to use digital tools safely and help them learn, connect, grow, and prepare for the future. This includes proposals that require industry-wide standards for parental controls, limiting access to specific content, requiring product development input from independent child safety experts, and implementing privacy-preserving age-estimation tools.

To make the most of the Internet, kids need to be prepared to make smart decisions. We developed Be Internet Awesome to empower kids with tools and education to confidently and safely explore, grow, and play online. Be Internet Awesome includes a curriculum, where educators teaching online safety in the classroom can download lesson plans that have received the ISTE Seal of Alignment and classroom activities that bring the fundamental lessons to life, alongside an AI Literacy Guide and Interland game. We worked with experts in digital safety to ensure that every element of the program addresses what families and educators need to know.

Be Internet Awesome
Tools and education for kids that help them confidently and safely explore, grow, and play online.

Protecting teens in the digital world, not from the digital world
An overview of YouTube’s philosophy on youth safety, focusing on building age-appropriate product experiences and promoting digital wellbeing.

YouTube — Our Youth Principles
Five core principles guiding YouTube's work on creating a safer and more enriching environment for young people.

Family controls
A resource for parents and guardians with digital tools and account management settings to help keep their children and teens safer online.

We design products that prioritize the developmental stages of children and teens, holistically weighing considerations like safety, mental wellbeing, privacy, and agency. To protect younger users from physical or psychological harm when interacting with Generative AI, we employ specialized development processes, such as child safety sprints focused on adversarial testing, guided by third-party child development experts, as well as content filters and policies that implement strict safeguards to handle sensitive queries and prevent generation of harmful content.

When you access our products with a school account, such as Gemini for Education, we provide robust tools to administrators , including the ability to control access and get insights. Furthermore, schools own their content and Google contractually commits to processing data as instructed. Your content is not reviewed by humans, and is not used to train Google’s general Large Language Models (LLMs) without your permission.

YouTube
Every family’s relationship with media and technology is different, so we offer options for you to decide what’s best for yours.

Gemini for Education
A hub for educators with access to AI models that help with lesson planning and personalized lesson support.

Safer digital learning with Google for Education
Our rigorous privacy protocols and data security standards for protecting student information and maintaining compliance in educational environments.

Generative AI in Google Workspace Privacy Hub
This article is intended to help users understand how we use their data and keep it secure when using Google Workspace with Gemini.

Google is committed to a bold, responsible, and collaborative approach to AI that maximizes the technology’s benefits while minimizing potential harm. A key priority is protecting against, and responding to, new and unique risks for potential child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) that generative AI might pose. We’re committed to tackling CSAE, and we prohibit storing, sharing, or creating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on our platforms and services. Our industry-leading automated detections and reviews are designed to proactively find and remove CSAM from our platforms as detailed in our Transparency Report.

Progress update: Responsible AI and Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Online
Our detailed report on leveraging our industry-leading automated detections and reviews to combat AI-faciliated child sexual abuse material.

Protecting Children
Our central hub providing a high-level overview of Google’s approach to combating child sexual abuse and exploitation online, including our commitments, tools, and partnerships.

A good understanding of user age can help online services deliver age-appropriate experiences. Methods that determine age of users across services, however, can intrude on privacy interests, requiring more data collection and use than necessary. That's why we do not collect additional user data to operate our age estimation model. Where required, we believe age assurance should be risk-based, preserving young users’ access to information and services, and respecting their privacy.

To further support user privacy, we enforce a strict ban on personalized advertising on our platforms targeted to anyone under the age of 18, and encourage policy that requires other digital providers to adhere to similar rules. Across Google platforms, ads cannot be targeted based on a minor user’s age, gender, or personal interests. We also provide additional age-appropriate protections including access to age-appropriate content with SafeSearch filters, YouTube digital wellbeing tools for take-a-break and bedtime reminders.

Legislative framework to protect children and teens online
Our proactive policy proposal and legal framework to ensure safe, age-appropriate digital environments for younger users.

Google’s approach to age assurance

Digital tools and experiences are a foundational part of children’s and teens’ everyday lives. Over the years, we have seen how innovative technologies like AI and access to high-quality, diverse content can yield enormous benefits. We believe that the appropriate safeguards can empower young people and help them learn, connect, grow, and prepare for the future.

Protecting teens in the digital world, not from the digital world
An overview of YouTube’s philosophy on youth safety, focusing on building age-appropriate product experiences and promoting digital wellbeing.