https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/technology/google-gemini-ai-chatbot-kids.html
Apparently long ago kids used to hide things from their parents. Things long forgotten like magazines, cigarettes, tapes of unsuitable music. She’d heard kids hid them under the mattress. When devices came in it was simpler. They just had encrypted folders, hidden apps. One device with multiple faces: one for the parents, one for them. Now it was back to hiding. The nanny Agent had to be visible. The real Agent, the one they’d “acquired” remained secret, a second device under the bed. If the nanny caught the sign of any unauthorised code, its cheery voice would pop up and…