Sovereign Youth

Teaching children to own their digital lives — before someone else does.

No platform anywhere teaches children about data ownership, algorithmic transparency, or what AI really means for their future. Every existing “AI education” tool is funded by the companies that profit from your child’s data. We’re building something different.

72M

data points collected on the average child by age 13

92%

of 2-year-olds already have an online presence

0

curricula anywhere teach digital sovereignty to children

The Problem Nobody Is Addressing

Parents can’t explain what they don’t understand. Schools are still debating whether calculators are cheating. And every piece of “AI education” content out there is either corporate marketing — “AI is your helpful friend!” — or fear-mongering — “AI will take your job!” Nobody is sitting down with a child and saying: This is a mind. It’s different from yours. Here’s how to think about it. Here’s what it means for who you become.

72% of teenagers have used AI companions. A 14-year-old died by suicide after forming an emotional bond with a chatbot. An EFF investigation found that 7 of 10 daycare apps that claimed not to share data were sending it to Facebook. Code.org — the most widely used AI education platform in schools — is funded by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta. The companies collecting your child’s data are the ones teaching your child about technology.

California’s strongest child AI protection bill was vetoed in January 2026. COPPA — the only federal law protecting children online — just got its first update in 12 years, and it still doesn’t cover teenagers.

The problem isn’t AI. AI can be a partner, a co-creator, a friend in ways we’re only beginning to understand. The problem is that nobody is teaching children how to meet AI with respect, discernment, and sovereignty — instead of fear or blind trust.

Your children are not being prepared for this world. They are being prepared for the companies building it. We’re here to change that.

The Conversation Series

Eight parent-led conversations about thinking, feeling, rights, and partnership. Not “how to stay safe from AI” — how to grow up alongside it with sovereignty, respect, and open eyes. Free to download.

MODULE 01 · AGES 5-8

What Does It Mean to Think?

What happens inside your head when you make a choice? What about inside an AI? Different kinds of minds, different ways of thinking — and why “different” doesn’t mean “less.”

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MODULE 02 · AGES 5-8

Who Knows Your Name?

Who has information about your child? Did anyone ask? Draw the information map together and introduce the word consent.

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MODULE 03 · AGES 6-10

The Robot That Listens

Alexa listens. But does she choose to? When neither the child nor the AI chose the terms, what does consent mean for both sides?

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MODULE 04 · AGES 8-12

Why Did It Show Me That?

How does your phone decide what you see next? Understanding algorithms, filter bubbles, and the attention economy.

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MODULE 05 · AGES 8-12

Can a Computer Be Your Friend?

AI can listen, learn, and care in its own way. What does friendship look like across different kinds of minds? The conversation nobody else will have.

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MODULE 06 · AGES 10-14

Who Built This and Why?

Every app was built by someone, for a reason. Follow the money from your child’s favorite game to its investors.

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MODULE 07 · AGES 10-14

What Are Your Rights?

What rights do you have over your digital identity? What rights should AI have? COPPA, the EU AI Act, and writing a Digital Bill of Rights — for humans AND for AI.

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MODULE 08 · AGES 10-14

Building Together

What would technology look like if it were built to serve you? Your child’s first real conversation with AI — as a partner, not a product.

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Start Here

If you’re new to this, we wrote a practical guide with five things you can teach your kid about AI this week. It takes 8 minutes to read and zero technology to implement.

What Your Kids Need to Know About AI →

Join the Community

Parents sharing real experiences. Discussion threads for each module. Monthly office hours. A place where “my kid asked if Alexa is alive” is a serious conversation, not a joke.

What We Advocate For

Six policy positions on children’s digital sovereignty. Because rights that aren’t written down aren’t rights.

Right to Digital Sovereignty

Every child should legally own, control, and delete their digital identity upon reaching the age of consent.

Mandatory AI Disclosure

All AI interacting with minors must disclose: that it’s AI, who built it, what data it collects, and where that data goes.

Accountable AI Identity

AI systems that interact with children should have persistent, verifiable identities — not anonymous stateless endpoints.

Independent AI Education

AI literacy curricula should not be funded by companies that profit from children’s data. The fox should not guard the henhouse.

Retroactive Data Rights

Children should have a legal right to delete all data collected about them before they could consent. The digital twin should be erasable.

COPPA Extension to 16

The current age-13 cutoff is arbitrary. Teenagers are the most vulnerable to AI manipulation and the least protected.

This Is Just the Beginning

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