Raising Generation AI

Google has announced that its AI tools and Google Search will be switched off by default on pupil school accounts from early next year. Schools can switch them back on. But Google says its search and its AI are now so closely tied that pupils can’t have Search without the AI answers. Holly and Fiona look at what this means for children who use Google at school. They also discuss whether it is likely to apply to UK schools as well as American ones.

They also clear up the viral rumour that Google is getting rid of the AI answers at the top of search results. Spoiler: it isn’t. They look at new research on how often those answers actually match the websites they cite. Plus a question from Chloe in Bootle: can you stop AI answers appearing when you search on Google?

Useful Links:

Washington Uni study: WashU research finds gaps in Google AI Overview citations - https://source.washu.edu/2026/09/washu-research-finds-gaps-in-google-ai-overview-citations-claims/

Google Announcement: Designing responsible AI for learning - https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/ai-learning-era-updates-2026/

Schools Will Lose Google Search If They Say No To Google AI (Forbes) - https://www.forbes.com/sites/danfitzpatrick/2026/11/03/schools-can-say-no-to-google-ai-but-theyll-lose-google-search-too/

Generative Engine Optimisation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_engine_optimization

Research: Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/

DuckDuckGo search engine - https://duckduckgo.com

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Holly’s children want to be an alien and a ballerina. For older children, the question of what work will look like by the time they leave school is much harder to answer.

A new survey from Bishop Burton College found 77% of parents are worried about AI affecting their child’s job prospects. Fiona explains why routine jobs are the most exposed and why fewer entry-level roles could mean fewer people learning to spot when AI gets things wrong,

Also:

Just Eat’s AI-generated food photos..

New Barnardo’s research finding 43% of 11 to 17 year olds have asked AI for help with their emotional and mental wellbeing.

A question from Jodie in Glasgow about spotting AI scams.

Plus Fiona’s new free activity: design and build a simple computer game with your child. You’ll find it on our YouTube channel.

Useful Links:

CentralWorld Christmas tree ghost - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfBkFv-TQqA/?srtk=MXY2Z2o1MWViNnUzcg==

Just Eat AI generated food - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crz981p0klvgo

Barnardos research - https://www.barnardos.org.uk/news/children-turning-ai-emotional-support-and-advice-they-struggle-find-professional-help-0

UK gov AI adoption survey - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-adoption-survey-2026/ai-adoption-survey-report-2026-executive-summary

Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs as it increases reliance on AI - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm4g1p347qgxo

AI can’t deliver a lamb - https://www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/ai-cant-deliver-a-lamb-survey-shows-students-and-parents-turning-to-hands-on-careers

Elon Musk Touts Universal Income As Remedy To AI-Driven Unemployment - https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/04/17/elon-musk-touts-universal-income-as-remedy-to-ai-driven-unemployment/

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Tung Tung Tung Sahur is one of the best-known Italian brainrot characters, and he was made with seven prompts in an AI image tool. There’s now a legal fight in the US over who, if anyone, owns him. Fiona explains what’s going on and why the outcome could shape who owns anything made with AI, including the characters your kids create.

Also this week, OpenAI’s boss Sam Altman says the world should accept some bad things happening with AI in exchange for its benefits. Holly asks whether parents should accept that. Fiona explains what tech companies can do to reduce the risks, and why she thinks the people carrying the risk should be the ones who get a say.

Plus a parent question. Character.AI has filed for bankruptcy and is being sold through the courts. What happens to everything your child typed into it, and what should you do now?

We’re off next week for half term. Back after Halloween.

Useful Links:

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI - https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217

Who owns ‘brain rot’? Inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/brain-rot-tung-tung-tung-sahur-noxa-openai-video

The Rest Is Entertainment podcast episode on Italian Brainrot - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-entertainment/id1718287198?i=1000795973322

More information on Character.ai including instructions on how to delete data - https://raisinggenerationai.com/20261016-newsletter/

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Parents are using AI to remove the watermarks from school photos rather than paying for them. Fiona and Holly talk about whether that’s fair on the photographers, what actually happens to your child’s photo once it’s uploaded, and why you should never, ever put the class photo into AI. To prove school photos are worth paying for, we’ve also included one of Fiona in primary school that her brother insists makes her look like a grasshopper.

ChatGPT for Teens has been given the lowest possible rating by US charity Common Sense Media, who’ve called it an “unacceptable risk”. OpenAI says the testing doesn’t reflect how it works in practice. We also talk about the UK’s first AI teacher, who is a real human being teaching children about AI, and whether it matters if you’re rude to AI when you talk to it.

Plus this week’s parent question: are your phone and computer listening to you all the time?

Useful Links:

Claude banning accounts - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6j9k1l72wkgo

Claude Aug 2025 launched feature to stop abusive conversations and questions AI moral status - https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations

UK Gov tells staff to stop saying thank you to AI - https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/uk-govt-draft-tells-staff-053100919.html

Scotland's first AI teacher - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6qjk9n7gge7o

Report of teachers calling for more help with AI - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw8r68mpm6p3o

Parents using AI to remove watermarks from school photos - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5ye4p86d21o

Baader–Meinhof phenomenon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

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Both Meta and OpenAI have launched new AI products over the last couple of weeks and they've moved away from their butthole logos to cute little, fluffy creatures.

Meta’s character is called Jolly and is a little beige plushie. And OpenAI has Dots, a series of colourful fluffy animated characters. Fiona and Holly discuss if we think they might make us trust the AI more and whether that's the whole point of what the companies are trying to do.

Plus Fiona tries out ChatGPT for Teens, we've found a new AI offering from Amazon that we both actually think has potential to be fun and a reasonable use of AI - the first time that has happened. And of course we talk about OpenAI's latest blunder and the sharing of images from private ChatGPT conversations.

Useful Links:

Interactive Stories from Audible: Dracula - https://www.audible.com/about/newsroom/the-next-chapter-in-listening-new-ways-to-interact-with-stories-on-audible

ChatGPT for Teens - https://chatgpt.com/parent-resources

Spencer Kelly’s Instagram post about the real-time, interactive, AI generated sitcom - https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd3HqCAjbg6/?stkn=MTV0MzhveW93NG14YQ==

OpenAI leaks images from private ChatGPT chats - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/25/openai-agents-leaked-53-images-chatgpt

ChatGPT Dots - https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots

Meta Muse - https://ai.meta.com/muse

Bouba-Kiki effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

AI logos look like buttholes blog post - https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

Training AI by proving you’re human (reCAPTCHA) - https://thehustle.co/the-genius-whos-tricking-the-world-into-doing-his-work-recaptcha

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Meta Muse and Google CC have been released in America, with both promising to help with family organisation. This is exactly what we’ve spoken about SO MANY times on the show since we started. Forget getting it to write for us or using AI to create art - this is what we’ve been asking for. So should we be excited for Google CC and Meta Muse coming to the UK?

Holly and Fiona talk through what they’re designed to do and whether parents should sign up. And although Fiona thinks AI that helps run family life will become normal one day, right now it's pretty new tech and a tool that organises your family has to know a lot about your family, so the privacy risks that come with that are still real.

Also this week: the latest on the OpenAI hacks, why Fiona's ChatGPT account decided she was a teenager, and Donald Trump wanting to rename AI as "SI".

Useful Links:

Donald Trump renames AI - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdmRMPXD74b/?stkn=NG01cWFyOTVhcWkz

OpenAI hacks Australian Government medical data - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6vgy0333dppo

Google CC - https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/cc-expanding-to-groups

Meta Muse - https://ai.meta.com/muse

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Fiona and Holly talk to the world's first AI actor, Tilly Norwood, to find out what her advice would be to the kids that want to be actors when they grow up. We also very much acknowledge that we're fuelling the PR for the company behind the AI actor, and talk about how we actually don't think she's any good.

The conversation has moved on from "AI is going to kill all humans" to AI regulation, and what it would actually take to control the growth of AI - including whether it's all just a big scheme by the companies to hide a lack of progress towards the profit they've promised investors.

Plus Holly's been playing games with ChatGPT and quite frankly failing to get it to do what she wants.

Useful Links:

Tilly Norwood https://www.tillynorwood.com

Tilly Norwood speaking to Piers Morgan https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdbhN3RBgYT

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Fiona and Holly discuss how AI would even go about killing us, what the various theories are behind the “killer AI” announcements and what we can actually do about it as parents.

This is after a senior safety researcher working on Claude claimed that he thinks there's a greater than 10% chance that AI will kill all humans in the next decade which really didn’t help Holly’s fears about AI.

Plus we talk about how Sam Altman’s claim that our kids “will never be smarter than AI” is actually quite insulting.

We discuss the video posted by American Mum Kalie Robins after she found Meta AI suggesting to followers that they ask detailed questions about her young children.

And Fiona shares a way to block nude images on your child’s phone.

Useful Links:

Kalie Robin’s Instagram video - https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcy8LU3S7DF/

“A kid growing up today will never be smarter than AI” - Sam Altman quote https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-kids-never-smarter-than-ai-chatgpt-2025-6

Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' (BBC News) - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwy1k42w4o

Jacob Coxon’s twitter/X thread about his resignation from Anthropic - https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843

Evan Hubinger’s twitter/X thread agreeing with Jacob, and making the “kill us all in the next decade” statement - https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126\

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ChatGPT for Teens launched over the summer so Fiona explains what it is, how it knows who is a teen, and explains why parents can’t try it out.

We also get into the new phone-free school requirements for English schools and colleges, AI slop and talk about those amazing videos filling social media from World Humanoid Robot Games.

Plus your AI parenting questions and Holly’s AI hallucinations.

Useful Links:

OpenAI makes ChatGPT less 'human' for teens in new safety update - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxqz91n5n8o

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 statutory guidance updates - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a9081309a177a1decf97b00/Keeping_children_safe_in_education_2026.pdf

World Humanoid Robot Games - https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c7vgvj6e1emo

World's first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery has tumour removed - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwg5n7y68xo

Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop' - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77g6dm5pr8o

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Meta's AI glasses and an Instagram AI feature that generated images from public photos, Holly and Fiona break down the privacy risks for parents in this AI parenting podcast.

Recorded just before Meta pulled the Instagram feature, this episode looks at privacy, ethical design in AI products, whether these features are actually needed, and the risk of everyday bullying alongside more extreme misuse. As the final episode of the season, Holly and Fiona also reflect on how it's gone.

New episodes return in September.

Topics covered:

• Instagram's AI image feature, and why it was taken down after backlash
• The privacy risk of bullying and misuse that's separate from the "worst case" concerns that got most of the coverage
• Meta's AI glasses and the privacy questions they raise
• Toy Story 5's message
• Reflections on the season and what's coming next

Useful Links:

BBC News story on Meta taking down the new Instagram feature

Explainer on Meta glasses and Kylie Jenner

Black Mirror - Nosedive (season 3, episode 1)

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