How can AI respect children’s best interests? As digital technologies reshape childhood, we must ask: Are we designing AI with children’s rights at the center? UNICEF Innocenti’s latest consultations reveal critical insights: ✅ Children want clarity and fairness – Terms and conditions should be understandable and culturally relevant. ✅ Safety ≠ the only right – Privacy, participation, and freedom of expression matter just as much. ✅ AI impacts development – Emotional well-being, autonomy, and critical thinking must guide design choices. ✅ Co-creation is key – Platforms should involve children in shaping digital spaces that reflect diverse contexts. What’s next? Smarter, context-sensitive tools for safety without compromising autonomy. Stronger enforcement of existing regulations and child-centered redress systems. Transparent reporting and accountability from tech companies. Best interests should never be a checkbox. They must guide every decision affecting children online. AI must empower - not exploit - young minds. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eHdFJgfZ #AI #ChildRights
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AI is transforming the risk landscape for #childprotection. Our new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, is timely. Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights reviews international and regional frameworks and examines regulatory models in the EU, China, UK, and India. While some jurisdictions are beginning to recognize children as a vulnerable group in AI governance, others make little or no mention of them at all. This is a major concern. AI’s impact might be more severe for children by exploiting gaps in their rights protections, limited autonomy, and developmental capacity. The asymmetry in power, information, and control between children and the technologies – and those who design and deploy them – makes these impacts more persistent and less visible. The review calls for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. It also warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the consequences for children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. As AI becomes embedded in the systems and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that these technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the full report: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion | UNICEF This review also contributes to UNICEF ’s broader guidance on AI and children, which is currently being updated, with new recommendations expected later this year.
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Excited to share a new UNICEF resource, 'AI Governance in Motion: A rapid global review of AI regulation and its implication for children's rights'. This rapid review draws out key global trends in current approaches to AI governance from a child rights lens - including an examination of regulatory models in four jurisdictions. ✅ Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/enbCZk_G As AI becomes embedded in multiple domains, activities, and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that AI technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, PhD Ida Margarita Hyllested Emma Day Dr. Sabine K. Witting Rachel Harvey Romain Sibille Steven Vosloo Daniel Kardefelt-Winther
AI is transforming the risk landscape for #childprotection. Our new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, is timely. Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights reviews international and regional frameworks and examines regulatory models in the EU, China, UK, and India. While some jurisdictions are beginning to recognize children as a vulnerable group in AI governance, others make little or no mention of them at all. This is a major concern. AI’s impact might be more severe for children by exploiting gaps in their rights protections, limited autonomy, and developmental capacity. The asymmetry in power, information, and control between children and the technologies – and those who design and deploy them – makes these impacts more persistent and less visible. The review calls for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. It also warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the consequences for children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. As AI becomes embedded in the systems and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that these technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the full report: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion | UNICEF This review also contributes to UNICEF ’s broader guidance on AI and children, which is currently being updated, with new recommendations expected later this year.
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🔥 New report ‘AI Governance in Motion: A rapid global review of AI regulation and its implications for children’s rights’, published by UNICEF and written by Tech Legality is finally out! 🔎 This rapid review supports efforts to strengthen AI regulation by: - Summarizing international and regional AI frameworks to understand current governance approaches. - Examining regulatory models in four jurisdictions, with a focus on how they address AI’s impact on children 📖 Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/dd5E7bP8 Thanks for the fantastic collaboration on this piece Josianne Galea Baron, Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, PhD & other UNICEF colleagues! #AIregulation #AIgovernance #humanrights #childrensrights #digitaltechnologies
AI is transforming the risk landscape for #childprotection. Our new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, is timely. Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights reviews international and regional frameworks and examines regulatory models in the EU, China, UK, and India. While some jurisdictions are beginning to recognize children as a vulnerable group in AI governance, others make little or no mention of them at all. This is a major concern. AI’s impact might be more severe for children by exploiting gaps in their rights protections, limited autonomy, and developmental capacity. The asymmetry in power, information, and control between children and the technologies – and those who design and deploy them – makes these impacts more persistent and less visible. The review calls for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. It also warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the consequences for children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. As AI becomes embedded in the systems and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that these technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the full report: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion | UNICEF This review also contributes to UNICEF ’s broader guidance on AI and children, which is currently being updated, with new recommendations expected later this year.
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CEO Africa and Europe @ Tech Legality | Assistant Professor Law and Digital Technologies @ Leiden University | Non-resident Fellow @ Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) | Member of CDT Europe Advisory Council
💡 Our new report ‘AI Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights’, published with UNICEF and co-authored by myself, Laura Berton CIPP/E, AIGP and Emma Day (all Tech Legality) is finally out! 👉 In this piece, we examine different regulatory models for AI in four jurisdictions (China, Europe, India and the United Kingdom), with a focus on how they address AI’s impact on children. 👉 As AI regulatory approaches have only emerged in recent years, it is too early to determine which approach will ultimately prove most effective in protecting children’s rights. Rather than wait for long-term evidence to emerge, we emphasise the need for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. The report warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the impacts on children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. ✅ Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/db9EejAn
AI is transforming the risk landscape for #childprotection. Our new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, is timely. Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights reviews international and regional frameworks and examines regulatory models in the EU, China, UK, and India. While some jurisdictions are beginning to recognize children as a vulnerable group in AI governance, others make little or no mention of them at all. This is a major concern. AI’s impact might be more severe for children by exploiting gaps in their rights protections, limited autonomy, and developmental capacity. The asymmetry in power, information, and control between children and the technologies – and those who design and deploy them – makes these impacts more persistent and less visible. The review calls for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. It also warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the consequences for children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. As AI becomes embedded in the systems and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that these technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the full report: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion | UNICEF This review also contributes to UNICEF ’s broader guidance on AI and children, which is currently being updated, with new recommendations expected later this year.
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💡 AI Regulation and its Impact on Children After a busy few months, I am very proud to see UNICEF publish this report on AI Governance in Motion: A Rapid Review of AI Regulation and its Implications for Children's Rights, which I co-authored with the brilliant Dr. Sabine K. Witting and Emma Day at Tech Legality. Link to the full report: https://lnkd.in/dv4kmgEn
AI is transforming the risk landscape for #childprotection. Our new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, is timely. Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights reviews international and regional frameworks and examines regulatory models in the EU, China, UK, and India. While some jurisdictions are beginning to recognize children as a vulnerable group in AI governance, others make little or no mention of them at all. This is a major concern. AI’s impact might be more severe for children by exploiting gaps in their rights protections, limited autonomy, and developmental capacity. The asymmetry in power, information, and control between children and the technologies – and those who design and deploy them – makes these impacts more persistent and less visible. The review calls for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. It also warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the consequences for children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. As AI becomes embedded in the systems and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that these technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the full report: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion | UNICEF This review also contributes to UNICEF ’s broader guidance on AI and children, which is currently being updated, with new recommendations expected later this year.
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Systems thinker exploring EdTech strategy-to-practice | 20+ years operations + 5 years teaching | MBA, BSc (Hons), PGCE, PTLLS.
Thanks to the reshare via Emma Day from Dr. Sabine K. Witting for the post and link for this UNICEF report. Although just released, its contents reflect the status quo as of April 2025. So, it may be of interest to those looking for a wider world view, and a comparison of changes over the last 6 months on governance protocols for Gen AI. Copied direct from the article: "KEY FINDINGS Of the eight international and regional AI frameworks and guidance reviewed, three make no explicit reference to children’s rights or other vulnerable groups. Even if children are covered tangentially, this omission highlights a significant gap in addressing a key group of rights-holders. While national regulatory approaches are unique and do not neatly fit into categories, this review identifies two broad categories, with corresponding regulatory trends: 1. Countries with AI-specific legislation, either adopting a risk-based approach or a state‑managed model; and 2. Countries without AI-specific legislation, relying instead on existing frameworks or promoting government-led AI development with minimal regulation. " When we consider the latest decision from OpenAI to offer Adult content on ChatGPT, following the release of Sora 2, which can now be used to create that adult content, and Altman's statement that they are not responsible for controlling their product.... This is showing us the biggest problem - the time lag in behemothic organisations and their ability to keep up with changes in modern tech. It should also force us to consider the juxtaposition of where GenAI is heading and that fact that some countries are simply not in a position to do something out about it. Thought this may be of interest - Clara Hawking and Victoria Hedlund?
AI is transforming the risk landscape for #childprotection. Our new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, is timely. Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights reviews international and regional frameworks and examines regulatory models in the EU, China, UK, and India. While some jurisdictions are beginning to recognize children as a vulnerable group in AI governance, others make little or no mention of them at all. This is a major concern. AI’s impact might be more severe for children by exploiting gaps in their rights protections, limited autonomy, and developmental capacity. The asymmetry in power, information, and control between children and the technologies – and those who design and deploy them – makes these impacts more persistent and less visible. The review calls for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. It also warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the consequences for children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. As AI becomes embedded in the systems and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that these technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the full report: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion | UNICEF This review also contributes to UNICEF ’s broader guidance on AI and children, which is currently being updated, with new recommendations expected later this year.
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Managing Director, Community Alliance for Child Rights at UNICEF USA | Driving Child-Focused Municipal Partnerships | Coalition Builder | Social Change Strategist
AI is rapidly reshaping the risk landscape for child protection — and governance is struggling to keep pace. This new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, highlights a critical gap: many AI governance frameworks still fail to meaningfully address children’s rights. As AI becomes embedded in the systems children rely on, proactive, child-rights-based regulation is essential — both to minimize harm and to ensure technology strengthens, rather than undermines, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the report --Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights --here: https://lnkd.in/gdcBJvwK #foreverychild #digitalsafety #childrights
AI is transforming the risk landscape for #childprotection. Our new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, is timely. Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights reviews international and regional frameworks and examines regulatory models in the EU, China, UK, and India. While some jurisdictions are beginning to recognize children as a vulnerable group in AI governance, others make little or no mention of them at all. This is a major concern. AI’s impact might be more severe for children by exploiting gaps in their rights protections, limited autonomy, and developmental capacity. The asymmetry in power, information, and control between children and the technologies – and those who design and deploy them – makes these impacts more persistent and less visible. The review calls for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. It also warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the consequences for children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. As AI becomes embedded in the systems and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that these technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the full report: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion | UNICEF This review also contributes to UNICEF ’s broader guidance on AI and children, which is currently being updated, with new recommendations expected later this year.
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This is an important report. When technology touches children’s lives, good intentions aren’t enough, we need safeguards that work at scale and by default. Two things stand out. First, the risks are asymmetric and often irreversible for kids. That argues for proactive policy anchored in children’s rights, not a wait-and-see approach. Second, policy only helps if it’s implemented in code. Guidelines should become product requirements: data minimisation by default, age-appropriate design, clear accountability, and independent auditing. On the engineering side, we already know some practical patterns that can help: enforce policy at the data boundary, pseudonymise sensitive information before it leaves your systems, and rehydrate it server-side only for authorised contexts. Keep full, tamper-evident logs. Where content is too risky, block external egress and handle it inside a private model environment. We’re building these ideas into AI DataFireWall so organisations can prove, not just promise, safe handling. Our goal is simple: make the safe path the easy path. If we do that, AI can support children’s learning and wellbeing while respecting their rights from day one. 😊
AI is transforming the risk landscape for #childprotection. Our new report, developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Business Engagement & Child Rights team, is timely. Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion: A Rapid Global Review of AI Regulation and Its Implications for Children’s Rights reviews international and regional frameworks and examines regulatory models in the EU, China, UK, and India. While some jurisdictions are beginning to recognize children as a vulnerable group in AI governance, others make little or no mention of them at all. This is a major concern. AI’s impact might be more severe for children by exploiting gaps in their rights protections, limited autonomy, and developmental capacity. The asymmetry in power, information, and control between children and the technologies – and those who design and deploy them – makes these impacts more persistent and less visible. The review calls for ongoing research to monitor and assess the impact of AI regulation on children across different contexts. It also warns against a ‘wait-and-see’ approach, arguing that the consequences for children may be more difficult to undo than to prevent. As AI becomes embedded in the systems and services that children rely on, proactive regulation – anchored in child rights law – is essential to ensure that these technologies support, rather than undermine, children’s safety, development, and well-being. 📘 Read the full report: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Motion | UNICEF This review also contributes to UNICEF ’s broader guidance on AI and children, which is currently being updated, with new recommendations expected later this year.
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In today's digital age, the intersection of AI and parenting brings forth a variety of considerations for tech-savvy families. The article, "AI Parenting Concerns: Key Hopes and Fears for Tech-Savvy Kids," highlights critical perspectives on how artificial intelligence can enhance learning while presenting potential risks that warrant careful navigation. As businesses increasingly adopt AI technologies, understanding its implications for younger generations is crucial. Key takeaways from the article include the importance of fostering digital literacy in children and encouraging conversations about online safety. Parents and educators must collaborate to create an environment where technology serves as a tool for empowerment, not a source of anxiety. This aligns with current market trends where the demand for AI-driven educational solutions is soaring, emphasizing the need for responsible implementation. As we delve into these issues, how can we balance the benefits of AI in parenting with the inherent risks it poses for our children’s development? Read the full article: [https://lnkd.in/eE2Gdckx
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Future of Childhood | Keynote Speaker | Featured in FT, CNN, BBC, NBC, WaPo | Author of Childhood in a Quantum Age (coming soon!) | Founder & Advisor
👩👧 “What should I be doing with my kids around AI right now?” It’s the question I hear most often from mothers: not because they want their children to master tech, but because they want them to grow up confident, curious, and in control of their digital lives. Here’s the approach I share, grounded in the Quantum Child™ Framework: 1️⃣ Engage with the future, gently and consistently. Explore one idea, article, or podcast about AI each day. It’s not about keeping up—it’s about building future fluency through small, intentional steps. 2️⃣ Make it part of everyday life. Talk about AI with your children. Ask what they think, what they feel, what they wonder. These conversations build embodied presence and foster digital sovereignty—the ability to navigate tech with awareness, boundaries, and self-trust. 3️⃣ Explore together. Use AI to co-create: write a story, solve a problem, imagine a new invention. This is connected consciousness in action—learning through dialogue, reflection, and shared experience. If we’re not engaging, conversing, and exploring, we risk leaving children to navigate complexity alone. And clarity is everything right now. --- ✨ Three takeaways for parents: • Engage with one future-focused idea daily. • Talk about AI openly and often., what it is/isn’t, what is dos/doesn’t • Explore its possibilities together to build digital sovereignty. This is how we raise children who thrive—not just survive—in a quantum age. 👉 Parents, I’d love to hear: how are you weaving AI into your family’s rhythm of learning and living? #QuantumChild #DigitalSovereignty #AIParenting #ConnectedConsciousness #FutureFluency #TechWiseParenting #ParentingInTheDigitalAge 📸 This photo is shared with consent from all children.
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