Kibo

For parents and carers

No AI knowledge needed. Your child learns how AI works, how to check it, and how to keep private things private.

In short: Pick a stage, sit with your child for the first lesson, then let them carry on. It takes about 20 minutes a lesson.

Get started in 4 steps

You do not need an account. Here is the quickest way in.

  1. Pick a stage

    Choose the course for your child’s age.

  2. Sit together once

    Do lesson 1 side by side, especially for ages 5 to 7.

  3. Let them carry on

    Each lesson has simple steps with paper and a pencil.

  4. Talk about it

    Ask them to explain what they found out.

What your child will learn

By about age 14, your child can:

  • explain how AI learns from data
  • train and test a small model
  • spot mistakes, bias and made-up answers
  • keep their own and other people’s information private
  • decide when to trust, check or question AI
  • talk about the good and the risks of AI

Lessons show benefits and risks fairly. They make children curious, not scared, and never ask children to take AI’s word for anything.

What this website does and does not do

  • No accounts, no sign-up and no forms. Every lesson and activity works straight away.
  • No adverts. No tracking or analytics.
  • No cookies.
  • No AI chat on this site, and no way for children to talk to strangers. The optional AI lab tests are run by a grown-up on another company’s service.
  • No photos, camera or microphone.
  • The activities run in the browser. Nothing a child does on them is sent anywhere.

Read the full safety and privacy page

Talk about it at home

A few conversation starters for each stage. There are no right answers, and “I don’t know, let’s check” is a great one.

Explorers, ages 5 to 7

  • Ask your child which things at home are smart helpers, and which only follow fixed rules.
  • Ask: “What could a smart helper get wrong?”
  • Practise the class chorus together: “Ask a grown-up first.”

Builders, ages 7 to 9

  • Ask: “How would you teach a machine to tell an apple from a banana?”
  • Ask: “What is something a machine got wrong for you?”
  • Look at a toy or app together and talk about whether it follows rules or learns from examples.

Creators, ages 9 to 11

  • Ask: “How do we know if an AI is any good?” and listen for “test it on new examples”.
  • Look at a picture or video together and play “real, edited or computer-made?” Check the source before deciding.
  • Ask which mistake matters more for a smoke alarm: a false alarm or a miss.

Coders, ages 11 to 14

  • Ask: “Can an AI be unfair? How could that happen?”
  • Ask your teenager to explain why a language model can sound sure and still be wrong.
  • Talk about when you would not want an AI to make a decision on its own.

Learning on their own

The For kids pages let children work through each lesson alone, mostly with paper and pencil. There is nothing to sign up for. What helps most:

  • Sit with younger children (5 to 7) the first time.
  • Ask them to explain what they found out at the end of each lesson. Each lesson has a “show a grown-up” prompt.
  • For the Python lessons (ages 11 to 14), help them install Python from python.org and keep their coding offline.
  • No lesson needs a photo, a name or any personal information, so please keep it that way.
  • Each lesson has an optional real-AI test. A grown-up types the prompts and the child directs and checks. Read the AI lab guide first.

Using AI tools at home

If your child uses AI tools elsewhere, a few habits help:

  • Never type names, school, address, passwords or photos of faces into an AI tool.
  • Check any AI answer against a trusted source before believing it.
  • AI services set their own minimum ages. For example, ChatGPT is not meant for under-13s, Claude.ai is for ages 18 and over, and Google says Gemini accounts for under-13s are not available in the UK. Check the current rules before your child uses one.
  • Encourage your child to say when AI helped with their work.

Still being built

Family accounts (so children can save their progress and you can see it), class codes for teachers and a classifier tool are planned but not ready yet. This page will say so when they arrive.

Questions parents ask

Is it really free?

Yes, today. All the lessons are free to use and there are no adverts. If we ever add paid options, we will say so clearly before asking for any payment.

What do you store about my child?

Nothing. This site has no accounts, no forms and no cookies, and the activities run in your own browser.

Do children chat with an AI?

Not on this site, which has no AI chat. Children learn by teaching a small machine in their own browser and by working on paper. Each lesson also has an optional real-AI test, where a grown-up types the prompts on their own account (ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini) and the child directs, reads the answers and checks them. Read the AI lab guide for the rules.

Do you collect pictures of my child?

No. Nothing on this site takes pictures, and lessons use drawings and objects, never faces.

Does my child need to know coding?

No. Explorers, Builders and Creators need none. The Coders course is easier with some Python.

Is it part of the school curriculum?

It supports computing and digital literacy now, and is written with the direction of the national curriculum review in mind. The current curriculum does not yet set out AI content. We will update the lessons when the new curriculum is final.