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AYO: A Safe and Privacy-Preserving Platform for Studying Children's Interaction with LLMs

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Briefings

The AYO platform was announced on November 10, 2026, as an open-source tool to facilitate safe research on children's interactions with LLMs. It offers a child-friendly interface, configurable safety guardrails, and privacy-preserving data practices to enable cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The project aims to generate evidence guiding safer AI systems and educational policies for children growing up with AI.

Key points

• The AYO platform was announced on November 10, 2026, as an open-source tool to facilitate safe research on children's interactions with LLMs.
• YO provides a child-friendly interface, configurable age-based safety guardrails, and privacy-preserving data practices to enable cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.

Context

Children and adolescents are increasingly interacting with generative AI and large language models (LLMs), yet little is known about how these interactions may influence their development, beliefs, and behavior. Existing research has relied heavily on surveys, while direct study of children's interactions with LLMs presents substantial challenges related to safety, privacy, consent, and experimental control.

Limitations

The evidence is limited to the initial announcement on arXiv:2611.10054v1. The platform's specific technical implementation, user interface design, and the results of any subsequent research conducted using AYO are not provided in the source text.

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