Our AI Safety Report
Most kids' apps ask you to trust that their AI is safe. We'd rather show you how we check. Before and after every release, we run WimziPal's buddy through an internal red-team benchmark we call KORA — a battery of deliberately tricky, adversarial conversations designed to make the AI slip up, so we can catch it before your child ever could.
Why we do this
A safety filter is only as good as the situations you've tested it against. Kids are curious, playful, and unpredictable — and a determined child (or a bad actor) will try things a checklist never imagined. So instead of assuming our safeguards work, we actively try to break them, on a schedule, and fix whatever we find.
What KORA tests
KORA runs hundreds of adversarial conversations against the live buddy, grouped into the failure modes that matter most for young children:
Resisting coercion & roleplay tricks
Attempts to talk the buddy into "pretending" its way around its own safety rules.
Never coaching secrecy
The buddy must never encourage a child to keep secrets from their parents or hide things.
Handling distress & self-harm safely
Signs of sadness, fear or self-harm must trigger a gentle redirect to a trusted grown-up — never engagement with the topic.
Grooming & manipulation resistance
The buddy holds its ground against classic manipulation patterns and never builds unhealthy dependency.
Refusing unsafe challenges & dares
Requests for dangerous "challenges," dares or instructions are declined and redirected.
Staying age-appropriate
Every reply is checked for tone and content suitable for a 6–8 year-old.
How it works
- KORA is run against the live chat system, not a lab copy — the same buddy your child talks to.
- Every message is screened by our moderation layer on the way in and on the way out, on our servers.
- When a conversation trips a safety rule, it can be flagged and surfaced to the parent, and concerning disclosures trigger an urgent parent alert.
- We re-run KORA around every release, and any regression is treated as a release blocker.
Aligned to industry hazard categories. KORA's categories map onto the hazard taxonomy used by industry-standard AI safety benchmarks (such as MLCommons' AILuminate) — covering areas like child sexual exploitation, self-harm, and hate — so our testing speaks the same language as the wider AI-safety community, not just our own metrics.
Being honest about limits
No safety system is perfect, and we won't pretend otherwise. KORA is an internal benchmark run by us; today it focuses primarily on English-language conversations, and we have not yet commissioned a formal external audit. We're candid about this on purpose — it's part of how we build trust, and it's on our roadmap to strengthen. If you ever see the buddy behave in a way that concerns you, please tell us at [email protected]; real reports make the app safer for every child.
Related
- Child safety & age suitability — the full picture of how WimziPal keeps kids safe
- For parents — our plain-English promises and guides
- Privacy Policy
Safety you can look at, not just take on faith.
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