My son is in year 10, age 15, currently revising for his end of year exams.
For the last 9 months he’s been using Claude to revise and it’s been revolutionary for him. It’s proper active learning- he loaded the specifications for his GCSEs , loaded past papers etc and Claude has been generating and marking questions for him. My son is answering the questions, Claude marks them and suggests where he went wrong. Son has validated all answers and marking with his teachers and my mum (ex head of English.) It’s been particularly useful in maths and sciences where there are clearly defined “right” answers, but he’s also moved his GCSE language scores up from a 5 to a 7-8 for example. He’s gone from getting 7-9s inconsistently to getting solid 9s in maths and science. He got 98% in his last maths class test and he says it’s all down to him endlessly testing himself and practicing.
He’s using AI in a responsible way that I’m very happy with.
Claude have now just banned his account for being under 18. Honestly it says in the T&C that you have to be over 18 but neither of us read that bit. This is where I’m wondering if I’d be unreasonable to register myself, go through the validation process with all my ID and then let him use my account.
There’s a practical question- will they still query my account based on content (why does a 54 year old woman want GCSE questions on the Weimar Republic) but also a moral one- now I know he shouldn’t be using it am I wrong for supporting him to? I think a lot of laws and rules are stupid but I follow them because otherwise society collapses- this is the first time I’ve really been tempted to say “stuff it” and break the rules. If it were my account I’d obviously supervise and have access….
Would I be unreasonable to do it?