Welcome to SaferAI

Meet Jaco

Jaco is the founder of SaferAI and a practising teacher with five years of classroom experience, much of it in online and distance education. An early adopter of generative AI, his initial enthusiasm has developed into a more cautious and critical understanding of its role in education.

He is currently completing a Bachelor of Psychology, with the aim of specialising in educational psychology and neuroscience. His work is driven by a commitment to protecting teenagers, their wellbeing, and their capacity to learn from the risks posed by technologies such as AI and social media.

Through SaferAI, Jaco advocates for an approach to education that puts human development first: helping raise a generation of young people who are literate, numerate, knowledgeable, and capable of thinking for themselves before they are expected to become competent and responsible users of technology.