AI disclosure
What the tutor is, what it is not, where it can be wrong, and what it will not do.
The tutor is software
The tutor in Natural Tutor is an artificial-intelligence system: a language model that writes each reply, a speech system that reads it aloud, and a drawing system that puts steps on the whiteboard. It is shown as an abstract presence, not a face or a person, so that a learner can see it listen, think, and talk. It is not a person, it is not a recording of a person, and it does not pretend to be either. The label AI tutor stays on screen during every session, and the tutor says it is an AI whenever a learner asks.
What it will not do
- It will not claim to be human, say it misses a learner, or ask a learner to come back.
- It will not give the final answer to graded-looking work before the learner tries a step (coach mode).
- It will not ask a learner for their name, school, address, or contacts, and it redirects off-topic requests back to studying.
- It will not produce sexual, violent, or hateful content, or romantic roleplay, and it applies stricter rules for learners aged 9 to 12.
- It will not lengthen a session to keep a learner on screen. Sessions end at their scheduled length.
- It will not use attention signals to pull a learner back later. They adapt the lesson and inform the parent; they never trigger a notification to the learner or a reminder to come back.
Where it can be wrong
Language models make mistakes: an explanation can be misleading, a graded check can be marked wrongly, a drawing can be off. The tutor checks arithmetic before stating it and says when it is unsure, but none of that makes it reliable in the way a textbook or a teacher is. Treat what it says as a strong first explanation, not as an authority. Every progress number in the product is labelled an estimate until an unaided check at least a day later confirms it, and the tutor never grades its own help as mastery.
What it must never be relied on for
The progress report is generated by software from a handful of check items. It is not a professional assessment, and it must never be read as one. Specifically, nothing the tutor or the report produces is:
- An assessment of a learner’s ability, aptitude, or needs by a teacher, psychologist, educational diagnostician, or any other qualified person.
- A diagnosis of anything — a learning disability, ADHD, dyscalculia, dyslexia, or any other condition. The tutor does not screen for these, and no number it produces means anything about them.
- A basis for a placement, grade-level, or eligibility decision, including anything feeding an IEP or a 504 plan.
- Medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice.
- Crisis support. If a learner discloses self-harm or abuse, the tutor responds with care, gives crisis resources, and stops tutoring — it does not counsel, and it is not a substitute for a person.
- Supervision. It is not a childminder and does not know what is happening in the room.
What to do when something is off
Every session has a report button. Use it for an answer that is wrong, a reply that is inappropriate, or anything that worried you. A report creates a flagged record that a person reviews. If a learner discloses self-harm or abuse, the tutor stops tutoring, offers crisis resources, and the session is flagged to the account holder and for review.
What the AI sees
The models receive the text of the conversation, the problem the learner brought — including the uploaded photo or PDF, for the stage that reads it — and a compact summary of the learner’s skills and past misconceptions. Voice is transcribed to text and the recording is discarded. No camera image ever reaches an AI provider or our servers, because there is no camera in this product. We do not use learner data to train models. The full list of providers and what each receives is in the privacy policy.
Which models
The operator routes each stage of a session (the live turn, grading, the summary, reading an uploaded problem) to a specific model from Google, Anthropic, or OpenAI, and can change that routing to improve quality, speed, or cost. Learners and parents never configure a provider, and no provider key ever reaches the browser.