Scientist of the Month December 2025: Olga Muss Laurenty скачать в хорошем качестве

Scientist of the Month December 2025: Olga Muss Laurenty

Olga Muss’s journey brings together engineering, cognitive science, and child development to reimagine how AI can genuinely support children’s learning and well-being. As an AI and child development researcher at Everyone AI and a cognitive science master’s student in Switzerland, she collaborates with educators, scientists, and policymakers to design safer, science-based AI tools and to build international coalitions focused on child-centered AI standards. Central to her work is a developmental perspective: AI must look different for preschoolers, school-age children, and adolescents, accounting for sensitive periods, emerging abstraction, and still-developing social and emotional regulation. She studies how design choices—like emotional simulation, apparent agency, and sycophantic validation—shape young people’s relationships with AI, their sense of trust, and their vulnerability to bias and over-reliance. Olga also explores how AI can become a supportive, interactive “journal” or practice space for emotional regulation and social skills, while cautioning against replacing human relationships or creating dependence. Working with AI Suisse, ETH Zurich, and a teacher preparation institute, she co-develops AI literacy projects where teens build social robots and engage with modular, carefully monitored AI systems that keep students thinking, collaborating, and in control. Her message to educators and families is clear: technology will not solve education on its own, and children are already using AI far more than adults realize, often without guidance on hallucinations, bias, or anthropomorphism. Olga’s leadership offers a grounded, globally minded vision for AI as a developmental ally, rooted in the science of learning and in the everyday realities of children’s lives. We are happy to feature her as our Scientist of the Month for December 2025.