How to Make a Family AI Agreement

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A lot of family AI rules come down to "Be careful with it." Nobody can tell if you kept that one, including you.

Our course uses one test. Could a stranger read your rule and know what you'd do? "I'll be careful" fails. So does "I'll always check it." When, and against what?

A rule that passes names a real moment and something you could watch. Like, "When I'm stuck on a science question, I write down what I already think before I ask it anything."

Then it needs a because, and "because I said so" doesn't count. The best ones come from how AI works: it predicts what sounds right, so the thinking starts with you.

Let the kid write theirs, clumsy or not.

Then do the part most adults skip, and write one for yourself. One that costs you something. "I don't let it write anything I get paid for, because my name goes on it and its name doesn't."

Watching a grown-up write their own rule is what turns this from homework into something the whole house talks about.