This report proposes a set of future guidelines for science and policies on artificial intelligence and children’s rights. It links research and policy to learn through interaction between different stakeholders and goes beyond identifying ethical guidelines on future practical implementation methods.
In formulating the proposed guidelines, account has been taken of relevant existing policy initiatives of key international organisations and recent coordinated actions by the European Commission in the field of AI, as well as state-of-the-art scientific work on AI-enabled technologies for children, focusing on three applications, conversation agents, recommender systems and robotic systems.
In addition, they are seen as the results of two workshops with young people and three seminars with experts and policy makers, which helped formulate a set of knowledge requirements, methods and gaps in the form of an integrated research and policy programme on artificial intelligence and children’s rights.