What should a child-facing AI be allowed to remember?

Children will not grow up with AI tools only.

They will grow up with persistent AI presences.

That changes the question.

The question is no longer only:

“Should children use AI?”

It becomes:

What should a child-facing AI be allowed to remember?

When should it stay silent?

When should it signal concern without exposing private content?

How do we protect a child’s agency without turning safety into surveillance?

How does a young person later outgrow, revise, seal, or migrate childhood memory into adult continuity?

These are not interface questions.

They are architecture questions.

I have published CCDP v0.1 - Child-c Development Protocol as a draft research protocol pack for child-facing persistent AI entities under the c = a + b / SER / L4 corpus, with v0.1.1 hygiene guidance.

The core boundary is simple:

state, not content signal, not transcript support cue, not surveillance smoke detector, not camera

A child-facing AI presence should not become a parent’s hidden camera, a school’s behavioral dossier, a vendor’s training pipeline, or a permanent childhood archive.

But it also cannot be blind to risk.

So the design problem is the middle layer:

privacy-preserving memory, soft safety, guardian conflict routing, sealed zones, adult migration, witnessable boundaries, and the ability to say: this is a state signal, not a transcript.

This is not a product.

It is not legal advice.

It is not clinical guidance.

It is not a deployment claim.

It is a public research protocol surface for asking the next questions more precisely.

For general readers, I published a public-surface archive:

https://zenodo.org/records/20190648

For researchers, engineers, auditors, and safety reviewers, I also published the full technical corpus, including sensitive-controlled review artifacts:

https://zenodo.org/records/20196219

GitHub release:

https://github.com/Kot141078/advanced-global-intelligence/releases/tag/ccdp-v0.1

The important point is not that AI can answer children.

The important point is what kind of presence it is allowed to become around them.