Building The Future of Ethical AI by Focusing on Its Foundation: Our Kids

Today, AI is transforming the way we work, learn, educate, and most importantly, live in general. As generative AI models become more advanced, we are entering uncharted territory. Many have already conceded that the latest reasoning models are much more advanced at performing most online tasks than humans. Software engineers are being replaced by tools like OpenAI’s Codex and video editors and animators are being replaced by tools like Sora. Meanwhile, it is becoming increasingly difficult to know when one looks at image or video content online whether it is “real” or simply generated.

Where do we go from here? At Amicus, we have been building tools that automate tasks, enhance regulatory clarity, and transform marketing divisions, working with both large and small companies. We’ve even been working on fascinating projects involving the building of humanoid robots. As we enter this new frontier, our focus at Amicus is to understand the latest developments in AI through collaborations and building “the future”, but also by working with children (mostly our own) to educate them on how these tools work, as well as leveraging them to educate our children. This education is not just geared towards their learning of history, mathematics and other primary educational subject areas. We must focus on building and utilizing the latest AI-based tooling to educate our children on how to most effectively and ethically use these tools themselves.

In a world where generative models can help teenagers develop plans to carry out nefarious activities from 3D-printed gun assembly to ways in which to cheat on drug tests, it’s important to work together with the latest AI tools to help children make better decisions.

How do we do this, especially in a world where decision-making and critical thinking skills are more and more being outsourced to data centers humming from cat picture generations to college essay writing? In an uncharted territory, we are working to develop a series of exploratory research where we work to answer these questions.

Our first experiment is in developing “safe prompts” that educate our children, by allowing the children to work with AI, ask questions, and generally converse, while the AI works to learn and educate them about ethical decision making, focusing on philosophical studies tied them into other areas such as language, math and science. At Amicus, our goal is to build off of these experiments and publish our findings, learn from community feedback and work to share methods and best-practices for raising healthy, happy and productive children in this new age, the Age of AI.