7 May 2024 | 16:00–17:15 | LSE 

Digital Media Use in Early Childhood: Birth to Six | Book launch

Chair: Baroness Beeban Kidron

Speakers: Professor Sonia Livingstone, Professor Susan Danby, Professor Lelia Green and Professor Brian O’Neill

Join us to celebrate the launch of Digital media use in early childhood with the authors and discussants. The book draws on a three-year research project examining the realities of under six-year-olds' experiences of digital technologies in the UK and Australia. At the launch, the authors will present the key arguments and reflect on a child rights-informed approach to early years’ digital lives.

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5 June 2024 | 18:30–20:00 | LSE

Tech tantrums - when tech meets humanity | Public lecture of the Digital Futures for Children centre

Chair: Professor Sonia Livingstone

Speakers: Baroness Beeban Kidron

AI is poised to supercharge its impact on almost every aspect of economic, public and personal life. Tech leaders in Silicon Valley believe that AI poses an existential threat to humanity even as they enter an arms race to be ’the ruler of the world”. This year 50% of the world’s population go to the polls, without a single party offering a vision of how they will ride, contain or regulate the wave of change that AI will bring.

In this talk, Beeban Kidron, best known for her global impact on tech regulation to benefit children, will set out why issues around AI must not be left to tech experts and unaccountable corporations.

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