Brazilian ministries issue guide to AI use by children and teenagers
The justice and human-rights ministries’ guide covers safer use of generative AI; a 2025 survey found 65% of internet users aged 9–17 had used it for at least one purpose.
Event / data period: 2026-10-15
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Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security and Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship launched a guide to artificial-intelligence use in childhood and adolescence on 15 October. The ministries say it was prepared with UNESCO cooperation and technical advice from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco. It describes AI through four roles in young people’s lives: as a toy, a companion, a curator of content and a creator of text, images, audio or video.
The guide gives separate recommendations to families, children and teenagers, and educators. Its subjects include privacy, mental health, emotional ties to automated systems, deepfakes, sextortion and critical thinking. The ministry announcement cites the 2025 TIC Kids Online Brazil survey: 65% of internet users aged 9–17 had used generative AI for at least one purpose. The survey reports 59% used it for schoolwork or study, 42% to seek information, 21% to create content and 10% to discuss personal problems or emotions; the uses can overlap.
Data
Generative AI use among children in Brazil
Reported uses among internet users aged 9–17 in the TIC Kids Online Brazil 2025 survey.
| School research or study | 59 |
| Searching for information | 42 |
| Creating content | 21 |
| Talking about personal problems or emotions | 10 |
Methodology
Percentages are transcribed from the 2025 survey tables published by Cetic.br/NIC.br. Uses may overlap and are not added together; the survey is from 2025, while the guide launch was on 15 October 2026.
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Subjects and places
Subject proposals
- Artificial intelligenceSuggested
- Subject suggested from the title or summary: AIwww.gov.br ↗
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