# Meta expands parental insights into teens' conversations with AI
In October, Meta signaled its plan to help parents as their teens explore AI. The company has now made available insights into the topics teens discuss with Meta’s AI assistant for supervising Teen Accounts in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Brazil, with a global rollout to follow in the coming weeks.
Giving Parents More Insight Into Their Teens’ Conversations With AI
- Parents who use supervision on Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram will find a new Insights tab within supervision, accessible both in-app and on the web.
- The Insights tab shows the topics a teen has asked Meta AI about in the past week within that specific app. Topics span areas such as School, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Travel, Writing, Health and Wellbeing, and more.
- Tapping a topic reveals the subcategories contained within it. For example, Lifestyle covers fashion, food, and holidays; Health and Wellbeing includes fitness, physical health, and mental health.
This is just the beginning. As insights roll out globally, Meta will continue listening to feedback from parents and experts and explore ways to make them even more useful.
Complementing Existing AI Protections for Teen Accounts
- The new insights build on safety protections already woven into Meta’s AI experiences for Teens. Meta AI is guided by age-appropriate content standards aligned with 13+ movie ratings and user feedback, meaning certain questions may be blocked or redirected to resources appropriate for a 13+ audience.
- Parents will still see the topic their teen asked about, even if AI did not provide a direct answer.
For sensitive topics related to suicide and self-harm, Meta is taking additional steps. The company has announced the development of new alerts to notify parents if their teen engages in conversations about suicide or self-harm with Meta AI, with more details to come soon.
These insights and proactive alerts are part of Meta’s broader efforts to enhance parental supervision, which already includes features like setting time limits, scheduling breaks, and viewing who the teen has spoken to over the past seven days. In the United States, the number of teens enrolled in supervision has more than doubled compared with last year.
Helping Parents Approach Conversations About AI Meta recognizes that AI is a rapidly evolving technology, and not all parents feel confident discussing it with their teens. To support dialogue, Meta collaborated with the Cyberbullying Research Center to develop conversation starters—open-ended questions designed to kick off non-judgmental conversations about teens’ experiences with AI. Each question comes with guidance on its purpose and best approaches for discussion. The prompts are available on the Family Center website and can also be accessed via a link in the new Insights tab.
Introducing Meta’s New AI Wellbeing Expert Council Meta is also sharing details about the AI Wellbeing Expert Council, a panel of experts that will provide ongoing input on Meta’s AI experiences for teens to help ensure safety and age-appropriateness. Meta has long worked with experts to shape its policies and products, including Suicide and Self-Harm Advisors, Youth Advisors, and Body Image Experts. The AI Wellbeing Expert Council expands this ecosystem with members affiliated with the National Council for Suicide Prevention, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas, and the University of Southern California, among others.
Meta teams will meet regularly with the AI Wellbeing Expert Council to share updates on the latest teen-focused AI experiences and to gather feedback for policy and product development. The council’s work is already informing the newly announced teen-age insights for parents, demonstrating the ongoing collaboration between the company and its advisory partners.