we are excited to share that Dr Isobel Voysey and Dr Vidminas Vizgirda have been part of the MIT Human Flourishing Workshop between October 14 and 15.

The initiative of ``Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AI’’ is closely aligned with our mission of fostering children’s agency in the age of AI.

``The goal of this workshop is to develop rigorous assessment frameworks that evaluate the extent to which AI models contribute to human flourishing while mitigating harms to help model developers build more responsible models’'.

As a result, the workshop aims to ``assist policymakers in regulating models, and inform the general public on which models to use.''

While the team has joined deep discussions about measuring for agency, curiosity, and mental health, we have found that the development of such measurements poses significant open challenges.

We have found the following literature helpful to guide our follow-ups of this important initiative and our ongoing development of measurement of agency, critical thinking, and AI for parenting:

How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Extended Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Study (Oct 2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17473.

Investigating Affective Use and Emotional Well-being on ChatGPT. April 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03888

Influencing human–AI interaction by priming beliefs about AI can increase perceived trustworthiness, empathy and effectiveness. Nature Machine Intelligence, 5(10), 1076-1086.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08775

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04703