About 5 min
AI or not?
Ten everyday things. Which ones use AI? Flip the cards and find out.
Let's playYoung Lab · ages 8 to 17
How does AI work? Play and find out.
Sort, teach, spot, cook up prompts and build a bot. Every game runs right here on your device: no account, no chat with an AI, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Pick your wing
Your lab passport
Finish a game to earn its stamp. Collect all nine!
All nine games
Explorers can try Makers games, and Makers can play the Explorers ones. Go where you're curious.
- About 8 min
Teach the machine
Show a tiny robot some fruit and watch it guess. It only knows what you show it.
Let's play - About 8 min
Spot the fake
Six pairs of posts and pictures. One of each pair was made up. Find the clues.
Let's play - About 7 min
Prompt kitchen
Mix role, task, detail and tone into a tasty prompt. The kitchen scores your recipe.
Let's play - About 7 min
Fair or unfair?
Six short stories about machines making choices. You be the judge.
Let's play - About 10 min
Next-word machine
Build sentences with a tiny language model and see exactly how it chooses each word.
Let's play - About 6 min
Privacy check-up
Eight quick situations. Pick what you'd do, and build your privacy toolkit.
Let's play - About 10 min
Build your first chatbot
Wire up a rule-based help-desk bot as a flow chart, then test it on real messages.
Let's play - About 6 min
Career paths
Flip through ten jobs that shape AI, many of them not about coding at all.
Let's play
Our promise
Young Lab was built to be calm and safe. Learning about AI shouldn't cost you your privacy.
- No account, no nameWe never ask who you are.
- Nothing leaves your deviceEvery game runs right here in your browser.
- No chatting with an AIJust games you control. No robot is listening.
- Stamps stay in this browserClear them any time from your passport.
For parents and teachers
What each game teaches, learning objectives, conversation starters, safety notes and printable activity sheets for unplugged lessons.