Are AI tutoring tools safe for your kids?

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AI tutors can offer useful support, but their quality and safeguards vary widely. Here’s what parents should check before handing one to a child.

10 Aug 2026 • 6 min. read

AI is disrupting sectors as diverse as healthcare and marketing. Now it is the turn of education. Governments sense an opportunity to save costs and improve outcomes for students. Schools are exploring tools that can adapt exercises to individual students while parents spot a chance to improve their children’s education without the expense of sending them to private tutors. But as with anything AI-shaped, there are rewards as well as risks.

Over-dependence and cognitive laziness are often touted as parental concerns. But there may also be security and privacy issues, especially if you’re using a glorified chatbot. Parents should understand the limits of machine intelligence.

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