How Children Design and Reason about Trustworthy AI Chatbots

arXiv:2609.25244 · cs.HC, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-23

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Hallucination — 31× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Literacy — 24× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 17× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative AI — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model — 5× in this paper
• Hallucination Detection — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment Scores — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination Mitigation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Teaching Tech to Talk: K-12 Conversational Artificial Intelligence Literacy Curriculum and Development Tools
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Co-ML: Collaborative Machine Learning Model Building for Developing Dataset Design Practices

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