Jarvis
The assistant I already have my name

You can see everything.
That is rather the point.

Jarvis works for your child, and answers to you. Every conversation is yours to read, every ability is yours to switch off, and your child is told so plainly.

during the beta he wants a Windows computer, or a Mac if you will be the first to try one

Nothing happens
behind your back.

Not a summary. Not a weekly digest with a risk score attached. The actual conversations, in full, whenever you care to read them.

  • Every exchange, exactly as it happened.
  • Every action he took on the computer, in order.
  • Everything he remembers about your child, and a way to remove any of it.
  • Deleted once they are over thirty days old. Long enough to catch anything that matters, short enough that a child's whole year is not sitting on a server.
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Every ability
has an off switch.

He is useful because he can do things. Which of them he may do is yours to decide, switch by switch, without having to ask us.

  • Answer at all. The one that makes the rest moot.
  • Use the computer. Opening things, typing, clicking, looking at the screen.
  • Look things up on the web, and read the pages he finds.
  • Write and read files. Essays, notes, code: anything that lands on the disk.
  • Listen to the room. Off means he hears only what is said to him.
  • Keep a record of conversations at all.
  • Draw pictures, and build small programs, each on its own.
  • Credits run out and he stops. No overdraft, and no bill you did not agree to.

And one thing that is not a switch at all. Jarvis can write an email. He cannot send one. Not "asks first", not "only with permission": there is no way for him to send, and a test refuses the build if anyone ever adds one.

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He tells your child
that you can see this.

Asked outright, the answer is always yes. No child should discover afterwards that they were being read. Far better they know from the first day, and we suspect you agree.

The limits are part of who he is rather than a filter added afterwards. He declines what he ought to decline, never pretends to be a person, and when something is genuinely worrying he says so instead of playing along.

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“Your parents can read our conversations. I would tell you otherwise if it were otherwise. It is not, and everyone is the better for knowing.”
Jarvis, asked the question directly

What he is not.

Worth being blunt about, because this category is full of things pretending to be rather more than they are.

Not a replacement for you

He organises and explains. The things that actually matter still come from you, and he will say so.

Not a counsellor or a doctor

If something is genuinely wrong, he points toward a person, not toward himself.

Not infallible

He is software and he can be wrong. Anything that counts is worth checking, and he says plainly when he does not know.

Your child's data.

Nothing is sold. There is no advertising. What is kept and for how long is set out in the privacy policy, and one email to support@hiarya.com is enough to have any of it deleted. You do not have to explain why.

If your child is under thirteen, we need you to set the account up rather than them.

Still not sure?

Ask us anything at all, however small. Questions from parents go to the front of the queue, and a person answers them rather than a form.

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