This week I was honoured to attend the Childrens AI Conference hosted by Unicef and Helsinki / Finland. The focus was centred on the use, application and problems with AI for children with some deep dives into privacy and benefits.
This week the Data Governance Act was also ratified in the EU. A deep dive into both of these topics is the role, use, and control of personal data and meta data by intermediaries.
The core of the issue with AI is questions around the role of a technical or legal intermediary and the control of personal data access and processing. The Data Governance Act looks to address these roles in practice.
In this WG's effort to address these core technical and governance issues 2FN and 2FC has worked to separate technical perrmission in the context of access management and human permission in the context of Consent. This has been made more difficult be a consolidated industry effort to conflate these two types of permission (as digital trust),
Resources and Links
Unicef Released an Ethics/Policy Guide
https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/reports/policy-guidance-ai-children
Based on Guidance Research
- The Drawings made at the Forum by the artist Linda Saukko-Rauta
- Recordings of the event
Calls to Action:
- Please also see Andre’s social media contact list and add your contact information!
- Participate in the EU Survey on DigComp 2.2, particularly “Citizens interacting with AI systems”
- UNICEF Data Manifesto: You can take action on children’s data
Policies & Case Studies:
- UNICEF: Policy Guidance on AI for Children (Version 2.0)
- UNICEF: Tools to operationalize the UNICEFpolicy guidance on AI for children
- UNICEF: AI guide for parents
- UNICEF: AI guide for teens
- List of online AI resources
- UNICEF: Manifesto on Better Governance of Children’s Data
- UNICEF: Case Studies and Pilot Testing of the AI Guide (n=8, 2 of which are below)
- Safelab: Integrating Emotional Stories Online
- Children’s Data Governance Applied Case Studies
- Netherlands: Code for Children's Rights
- European Schoolnet: Artificial Intelligence Role in K12 Education
- Scotland’s AI Strategy
Scientific papers/related resources on the topic (AI & children / children’s rights / children’s participation / ...):
- Toy story or children story? Putting children and their rights at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution
- Government digital policies and children’s rights in Uruguay: An assessment framed by the UN CRC’s dimensions of provision, protection and participation
- Manifesto for children’s genuine participation in digital technology design and making
- “Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?” Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction
- Child-Robot Interaction to Integrate Reflective Storytelling Into Creative Play
- Voice Design to Support Young Children’s Agency in Child-Agent Interaction
- Informing Age-Appropriate AI: Examining Principles and Practices of AI for Children. Accepted for publication at CHI’2022. Look out for camera ready from @oxfordccai
- Social Work in Data Science for AI
- UnBias’ tools to engage with children: Youth Juries method & the Fairness Toolkit (including the UnBias Awareness Cards)
- Legal Remedies For a Forgiving Society: Children’s rights, data protection rights and the value of forgiveness in AI-mediated risk profiling of Dutch government agencies
- Identifying Barriers to Better Privacy in Children’s Apps from Developers’ Perspectives
- Child Development and Protection in the Digital Age
Research projects:
- University of Oulu, Finland: Participatory AI with schoolchildren
- University of Oulu, Finland: Ethics of utilizing AI-based therapy for young children with autism
- Changing Expectations, Austin, Texas: Broadening Participation to Include African-American and Hispanic Students with Disabilities in Computer Science Learning Using Artificial Intelligence Voice User Interface Project-Based Learning (AI for Social Justice)
- MindScribe.org: Designing Playful Child-Robot Interactions for Creative Reflection in Early Childhood
- Ethical Web and Data Architecture in the Age of AI
- UnBias Project (Universities of Nottingham, Oxford and Edinburgh)
- Kids in conversation with Media, (Dutch Institute of Sound and Vision & University of Twente project) interactive robot in the museum (The Netherlands)
- ALLAI (Netherlands)
Technical Standards / Regulations
- IEEE Age Appropriate Design and Children's Data Governance
- IEEE Ethics in Action: System Design
- IEEE 2089-2021 - IEEE Standard for an Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children
- IEEE 7010: A New Standard for Assessing the Well-being Implications of Artificial Intelligence
- Saidot’s Ethical AI Governance Framework
- Linking AI Principles
Initiatives
- JAAKLAC Initiative (Latin America)
- Announcing Global Privacy Rights and the Childrens-AI Privacy Assurance Lab
- Caribbean AI Initiative
- ChildSafeNet (Nepal)
- Voice of Youth
- 5Rights Foundation
- D4CR Association (Design for Children’s Rights)
- AI4ALL
- Generation AI / AI Youth Council
- Police Lab AI (Netherlands)
- Technovation
E-learning courses
- Free online course: Elements of AI
- Free online course: Ethics of AI
- MIT course to teach tweens about the ethics of AI
- AI-4-All open learning
Here is the workshop methodology UNICEF used to consult children on AI https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IVh4DTNnFpNeLTLY1c3dX0LmAuO3y6Tu