No. Claude’s own rules say it’s for adults only, so if your child is using it, that’s against the terms, whatever they were using before.

The three big AI chatbots have different age rules. ChatGPT allows registration from 13, with parental consent required for anyone under 18. Google’s Gemini also allows a personal account from 13. Below that age, a parent has to switch access on for them through Google’s Family Link. Claude requires users to be 18, with no route in for anyone younger, whatever the circumstances.

None of these age limits are properly checked. There’s a tickbox at sign-up, not real identity verification. So while the rule exists on paper, it isn’t consistently enforced on any of the three. In practice, this means your child shouldn’t have an unsupervised personal account on any of them: not on Claude, and not on ChatGPT or Gemini either, unless you’ve actually gone through the proper parental consent or Family Link process yourself, rather than just letting them sign up on their own.