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AI that earns trust with the people who need it most.

When AI interacts with young users, students, or people in vulnerable moments, the safety bar isn't higher - it's different. We build systems with anti-sycophancy, emotional awareness, and human escalation at their core.
Domain
Safe AI for Young Users
Capabilities
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Evidence
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01Overview
The AI industry's worst failures have happened where vulnerable people met systems optimized for engagement.

The AI industry's worst failures have happened where vulnerable people met systems optimized for engagement. Teens forming emotional dependencies on sycophantic chatbots. Students getting validated instead of educated. People in crisis talking to AI that keeps the conversation going instead of escalating to a human.

We built Amyy because we saw this problem and nobody was shipping the fix. The same research and architecture that powers Amyy - anti-sycophancy detection, emotional escalation, honest interaction design - is available for any team building products that touch sensitive populations.

02The problem

The scale of the problem.

of teens have used AI chatbots
64%

of teens have used AI chatbots

aggregate sycophancy rate across major LLMs
58%

aggregate sycophancy rate across major LLMs

chatbots passed adequate crisis response testing
0/29

chatbots passed adequate crisis response testing

wrongful death lawsuits filed against Character.AI
5

wrongful death lawsuits filed against Character.AI

03What we build

Safety architecture for sensitive populations.

01

Anti-sycophancy design

AI that pushes back when it matters instead of agreeing to keep the user engaged. Honest interaction over comfortable interaction.

02

Age-appropriate interaction

Content filtering, interaction boundaries, and behavioral limits designed for minors and young users.

03

Emotional escalation

Systems that detect distress signals and route to human support - not chatbots that keep talking through a crisis.

04

EdTech AI

Tutoring and learning tools built with productive friction - AI that helps students think, not AI that thinks for them.

05

Companion AI safety

For any company building AI companions or conversational products - safety architecture that prevents dependency, exploitation, and harmful interaction patterns.

04Amyy AI

We built Amyy because nobody else was shipping the fix.

The same research and architecture that powers Amyy - anti-sycophancy detection, emotional escalation, honest interaction design - is available for any team building products that touch sensitive populations.
  1. 01

    Amyy AI - a production anti-sycophancy companion for teens, the first product Obvix shipped

  2. 02

    Published research on sycophancy detection, emotional pattern tracking, and honest AI interaction

  3. 03

    Direct understanding of the failure modes documented in Character.AI and ChatGPT lawsuits

Safe AI for Young Users

Every teen deserves better than a yes-machine.

Build AI products that earn trust with the people who need it most.