Kids will grow up with AI. Let's make sure they grow up ready.

My AI Steps is a free, arts-based program that teaches children to use AI safely, creatively, and critically, through making, not screens.

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Harvard University Founded by Harvard researcher

AI is already in your child's world.

In homework helpers, search results, and toys. The question isn't whether kids will meet AI: it's whether they'll be ready when they do.

Confidently wrong

AI can make things up and sound completely sure of itself. Kids can't yet tell the difference.

Hard to keep up

Tools change monthly. Parents shouldn't need a computer science degree to guide their kids.

Worry isn't a plan

Banning AI doesn't prepare children for the world they'll actually live in.

The answer isn't fear: it's literacy.

Catch the AI's mistake

Play the game our workshop kids play. Chatty below sounds friendly and sure of itself, but it slipped up somewhere.

Chatty (a pretend AI, for practice)
how sure it sounds

This is Module 3 of our curriculum: AI Detective.

Kids learn AI the way artists learn a new material.

My AI Steps is an inclusive, arts-based AI literacy curriculum, translating research on children's AI literacy into free community workshops and accessible learning materials. Kids experiment, make, check, and reflect. The child always stays the author.

  • Notice
  • Ask
  • Make
  • Check
  • Improve
  • Share
1

Meet AI

AI is not always right.

2

Ask Like a Designer

Good AI use starts with good questions.

3

AI Detective

Verify before believing.

4

Create With AI, Not For AI

The child stays the author.

5

Safe, Kind & Fair AI

AI use has consequences.

Research-grounded. Designed for every learner.

Every activity is grounded in research on children's AI literacy, child development, and inclusive education frameworks, then tested with real families.

Founded by Liz Kim, currently doing research at the Gaab Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

For libraries, schools & community organizations

We bring the curriculum, facilitators, and materials. You bring the space and the families.

Workshops are free for families, run by trained facilitators, and shaped to fit your community.

Bring My AI Steps to your community

or write to us: dohyun_kim@gse.harvard.edu