The Qbit Family AI Council

The Council is being seated now. Appointments to the AI Oversight Board and the ratified Charter will be published here as they are confirmed. Chapter and membership applications are open today.

Because AI needs HI

Real people who study kids will review what Qbit does before your child uses it.

Children are going to use AI. That is settled. What is not settled is what the products they use owe them, who decides, and who checks. This Council exists to answer the last two in public.

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Why this Council exists

Four obligations, carried in public.

Qbit is built for families, so we carry this obligation directly. It is not one any single company should define on its own, and not one we can meet by publishing a policy page and moving on.

  1. Teach

    Help parents and educators use AI with children well, in plain language.

  2. Set the bar

    Author policies and best practices for how any AI product should treat a child, not only this one.

  3. Build

    Create AI educational materials for classrooms, homeschools, and kitchen tables.

  4. Check us

    Review Qbit’s own product decisions before families live with them, and publish what it finds.

The first three make the Council useful to the world. The fourth makes it credible. Neither works without the other.

How it is built

Small and named where authority sits. Wide and open where the work happens.

  • Seven to nine seats

    The AI Oversight Board

    Named individuals with recognized expertise, appearing publicly with credentials, biography, and a link to their own practice or work. The Board reviews Qbit, ratifies published standards, approves materials for release, and speaks for the Council.

  • Open and uncapped

    Council Members

    Teachers, homeschool educators, pediatric and mental health clinicians, school counselors, librarians, child protection professionals, and parents. Members draft and comment on standards, pilot materials in real classrooms, staff working groups, and answer the annual practitioner survey.

  • Six to ten young people

    Youth Panel

    Ages 10 to 17, convened with documented parental consent, meeting separately and reporting to the Board in writing twice a year. Kids notice the things adults design around, and this panel exists so those observations arrive first hand rather than filtered through us.

What the Council will produce

Everything it makes is published.

  • The Family AI Standard A public standard for how any AI product should treat a child, written to be used by people who did not build it.
  • Guidance for parents and educators Plain language, no governance vocabulary, free to read and free to reuse.
  • AI educational materials Lesson plans, activities, and AI literacy units, piloted by Members before release.
  • An annual report What the Council reviewed, what it asked for, and what Qbit did about it.
Independence

A council that cannot say no is decoration.

So the terms are written down before anyone is seated. The Charter goes to the Board’s first session, and it is published the day it is ratified.

  • Dissent is recorded When the Board objects to something Qbit intends to ship, the objection is published, not resolved quietly.
  • Shipping over an objection is disclosed If we go ahead anyway, we say so, and the Board may publish its own account alongside ours.
  • Resignations are transparent Anyone who leaves may state publicly why, and we do not gate that.
  • Qbit cannot amend the Charter alone Amendment takes two thirds of the Board plus our agreement, and every amendment is published with its date, text, and vote count.

What the Council is not.

  • Not a certification or accreditation body No seal, badge, or mark, for Qbit or for anyone else. Membership is not a credential we issue.
  • Not legal counsel Nothing the Council publishes is a compliance opinion.
  • Not a support desk It does not adjudicate individual accounts or moderation appeals. Those go to Qbit support.
  • Not a marketing asset Members owe Qbit no endorsement, pay nothing, and receive nothing for joining beyond the work itself.
Council membership

Applications are open.

Any practitioner or parent with a genuine stake in how children use AI. Educators of every kind, clinicians, counselors, librarians, child protection professionals, and parents. Free, uncapped, and reviewed for authenticity rather than credentials. The gate is that you are who you say you are.

Apply by email

A dedicated application form and a council address are being set up. Until they are live, applications come to Qbit support and are held for the Board’s first session.

Tell us

  1. Your name and where you work or teach.
  2. Your background with children and, if relevant, with AI.
  3. The area you would want to work on.
  4. Whether you would want to be listed in the public Member directory, which is opt in.

Interested in a Board seat? Say so. Those seats are being filled now.