Koko is built to ask, not to answer.
Its job is to make your child do the thinking — and you can read exactly how, right here.
Two deliberate exceptions: after two genuine tries Koko will model one step on a similar example and hand the problem back, and if your child is upset, hurt or asking about staying safe it answers plainly and points them to you. Koko is an AI model and can still get things wrong.
An example conversation, turn by turn. No account, no sign-up, nothing to install.
An example conversation
- Koko (example)
I (Koko) build my answers the very same way — by predicting likely words, one after another. That makes me sound smooth and sure. But here is the trap: what if the most likely-SOUNDING answer isn't actually TRUE?
- Child (example)
Then it would be wrong. But you sound really sure, so I'd probably believe you.
- Koko (example)
If I always pick what sounds likely, could I ever say a wrong fact in a very confident voice?
- Child (example)
Sounding sure isn't the same as being right. You could say something in a really confident voice and still be wrong.
- Thinking move: infer
- Koko (example)
Knowing all that — what is the wise thing to do whenever I, or any AI, tell you something that matters?
- Child (example)
Check it?
- Koko (example)
If I can be confidently wrong, what could you do to find out if I am right this time?
- Child (example)
Look it up somewhere else, or test it myself. Sounds sure - but always check.
How we made this example
Koko's lines here are its own script, read straight out of the guided-derivation scaffold "Why Koko Sometimes Makes Things Up" (strand Logic, Stages 4-9) that Kocher AI gives Koko for this topic. In a real session Koko is given the same scaffold and puts it in its own words, so the wording your child sees will differ. The child's replies are written by us to show one typical path, and a real Koko waits for two or three tries before offering a hint -- here it offers one after a single try, to keep the example short.
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