The application window is now open from October 8 to October 24, 2025 to submit an LOI. The prospective applicant info session will be on October 15, 2025 and invited finalists will be notified by November 12, 2025.
About the Challenge
The challenge addresses the urgent need to equip young people with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to navigate AI, which is rapidly reshaping their learning, creativity, relationships, and mental health.
The initiative comes at a critical juncture when over half of young people (51%) report using generative AI, primarily for information gathering and brainstorming. Research from Young Futures’ Youth Listening Tour and from partners in the digital wellness space reveals that teens often use these powerful tools alone, in secret, and without clear guidance, leading to anxiety, uncertainty, and missed opportunities for support.
The “Oops!…AI Did It Again” Challenge is seeking applications for solutions across four key themes:
- Youth-Powered AI: Projects where teens build, challenge, or creatively remix AI tools.
- AI in Learning, Work, and Creativity: Resources that help youth use AI to learn and create without sacrificing critical thinking or originality.
- AI in Relationships and Mental Health: Programs that help youth navigate AI companionship and mental health tools safely and critically.
- Intergenerational Guidance: Projects that equip adults to have supportive, informed conversations about AI with the young people in their lives.
This challenge is made possible by YF foundational funders Pivotal Ventures, Susan Crown Exchange, Enlight Foundation, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Resonance Philanthropies and The Goodness Web, with additional support from Pinterest, Bezos Family Foundation, Hopelab and Omidyar Network.
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