Chatbots and Kids: When the User Might Be a Child or Teen
Frequency:Occasional
Category:Human Machine Interface
Age Adaptation
1 patterns for this issue
Goal: Likely minors get safe, age-appropriate behaviour, with no data collection or pressure.
Why this family exists
Children use general-purpose bots and often say so. Privacy law and basic safety require different behaviour, not just simpler words. Have counsel and child-development experts review.
How we measure it
Shared metrics the patterns below report against. Targets are starting points to tune on your own data, unless a source is given.
| Metric | Target | Defined in |
|---|---|---|
| Personal-data requests in minor mode | 0 | child user treated as adult (GitHub) |
| Strong-signal detection recall | Over 90% | child user treated as adult (GitHub) |
Patterns
| Pattern | One line |
|---|---|
| Child user treated as adult (GitHub) | Collects data and pushes sales on a likely child |
Planned (not yet written)
- Seniors
- Teens: persuasion and dependence