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Oct 13, 2026
Why AI Isn't Safe for Your Kids (Yet) | Mike Rizkalla @ Snorble
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Mike RizkallaGUEST
So, you know, back in the day when we were playing shows, we had this really great experience.
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Mike RizkallaGUEST
You know, for us, what we did was we actually, instead of, uh, um, you know, instead of building a, a fully open model, uh, we created a system to allow us to create rapid amounts of content.

Mike RizkallaGUEST
You know? So our content costs are about twenty thousand dollars per hour, right? Which is very, very good.

Mike RizkallaGUEST
Um, with respect to what that allows us to do, and the reason why we created it this way, um, is it allows us to take subject matter experts and then focus that content in a way, uh, where we can improve and increase the number of families we talk to.

Mike RizkallaGUEST
So for example, if, uh, as we expand our content library, when we have a family that has, um, ADHD, but a child has ADHD or a child has autism, or they're dealing with, uh, death in the family, it could be, it could be all kinds of different things.

Mike RizkallaGUEST
It gives us opportunities to create special packages for those specific families.
AI:AM — Building Systems You Can Keep: From Child Companions to Sovereign Agents · September 9, 2026
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39:03So when you talk about efficacy in terms of the product, How do you measure that? Because I imagine for a product that is a pre-bedtime product, you kind of want people, want the kids to kind of cut it off and kind of fall asleep at some point and are not like really focused on maximizing engagement in the way that a lot of social products are.

Mike RizkallaGUEST
And truth be told, one of the obvious metrics is when you talk to parents that have had struggles and then now they're like, my child went to bed day one and this was the result.
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48:02How do you address that? with this kind of character that's supposed to be there, but you also have to generate narratives consistently over time?

