Children and AI – what parents should know
Talking characters and storytelling apps: artificial intelligence has reached products for young children. What UNICEF and the EU say, and what you can check yourself.
AI Teki: Teki talks back
Teki asks, your child answers out loud, and Teki replies with the help of artificial intelligence.
- Off until you switch it on
- Only a parent can switch it on
- In Teki Plus and Teki Family
- Your family gets one free call, up to 3 minutes.
TekiA message from Teki
If you like, call me and we can talk!
A recorded line from the app
How a talk with Teki goes
You switch it on
For the child you choose. The microphone has its own switch.
Your child answers
Teki asks, and while the green “Teki is listening” sign shows, your child can answer out loud without pressing a button. Tapping an answer always works too.
Teki answers
Teki replies within the game, in words made for children. You can switch AI Teki off at any time.
What your child does with AI Teki
On Teki's path, between the adventures, there are talking games: your child counts with Teki, hunts for treasure, makes up rhymes, or the two finish a story together. In a Teki call they can also chat about topics made for children: animals, colours, seasons or stories.
At the start of the first conversation, Teki tells your child that it is a play character that a computer helps to talk.
You decide
- AI Teki is off by default. Only you can switch it on, for each child.
- The microphone has its own switch. Without it, your child answers by tapping pictures, and tapping always works even when it is on.
- You set the daily limit.
- You can switch AI Teki, the microphone or Teki calls off at any time.
How much AI Teki you get
- Teki Plus: 5 hours a month for the family.
- Teki Family: 8 hours a month for the family.
- During the 7 free days: 60 minutes for the family.
What happens to your child's words
In a game the microphone listens only while the green “Teki is listening” sign shows or your child holds the talk button, and in a Teki call you allowed only while the call screen is open. Their voice is turned into text and never stored; their words go as text to a language model in the United States so Teki can reply, and are never used for training.
Your first adventure is waiting
Download Teki and set off for the first island together.
