Common Sense Media

What they ask for — in their own terms

Children should be protected from unsafe AI — independent risk ratings for AI products, and states must keep the power to pass their own children's AI safety laws.

What they do

Independent risk assessments of AI products (rating Google Search AI, ChatGPT-5, Grok, Perplexity, Claude and AI mental health apps from 'Moderate Risk' to 'Unacceptable Risk'); research on teen AI use; campaigns against the executive order blocking state AI laws; work on deepfakes, AI toys and AI companions.

What a newcomer can do

Sign the petition challenging the executive order blocking state AI laws; check the AI ratings before your child uses a tool; subscribe to the newsletters.

Worth knowing

Its frame is child safety and product harm, not catastrophic or existential risk. Broad public appeal but a narrower ask than the pause/ban groups — a good fit if your concern is kids and chatbots, a poor one if it is frontier capability.

Tips

unclear

Where they work

United States, with strong California state activity.

Size

Large and well-established — by far the biggest child-safety-focused organisation on this list, with its own research institute.

Spending

Not disclosed on the pages checked; accepts donations.