A useful agreement is a conversation, not surveillance. The goal is to make it easier for a learner to ask for help, admit a mistake, and stop an unsafe interaction without fearing punishment for speaking up.
Before you fill it in
- List the AI features the family actually uses, including tools built into search, messaging, school platforms, games, or devices.
- Review the provider’s current age requirement, privacy notice, retention, training-use settings, and reporting controls.
- Ask the school what use is permitted and what disclosure is expected.
- Choose rules that adults will follow too.
Family: ____________________________________ Review date: __________________
1. Our purpose
We use AI when it supports learning, creativity, accessibility, or problem-solving without hiding responsibility or replacing a person who should make the decision.
2. Our privacy rule
We keep passwords, contact details, exact locations, school logins, private images, health details, confidential documents, and another person’s story out of prompts and uploads.
3. Our schoolwork rule
We follow the teacher’s or school’s current policy. We do not submit work we cannot explain, verify, and defend. We disclose AI assistance whenever required.
4. Our verification rule
We check important dates, numbers, quotations, citations, current rules, and factual claims with an independent source appropriate to the topic.
5. Our emotional and safety boundary
An AI tool is not a confidential friend, therapist, emergency service, doctor, lawyer, or financial adviser. We move serious or personal problems to a trusted and qualified human.
6. Our stop-and-report plan
We stop if an output becomes sexual, threatening, hateful, manipulative, self-harm related, private, or upsetting. The learner can tell an adult without being punished for reporting the conversation.
7. Our review plan
We will revisit this agreement when a new tool is introduced, a learner begins using AI independently, school rules change, or an incident shows that a rule needs improvement.
Learner signature: ____________________________ Adult signature: ____________________________
Conversation prompts that make the agreement real
- What would make it easy to tell an adult that something went wrong?
- Which information might identify someone even if their name is removed?
- What is the difference between getting help and hiding the source of work?
- Which kinds of answer require two sources or a qualified person?
- When should the family delete a tool, change a password, or report an account?
Important: this template is educational and is not legal advice, a substitute for provider controls, or a school policy. Applicable age, consent, safeguarding, and reporting duties still apply.