Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as chatbots and image creators, are evermore prevalent in children's everyday lives. We must understand how children experience and perceive GenAI technologies, and what the implications are for children's rights.
The Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC), in collaboration with researchers from the EU Kids Online network and partners in four countries in the global South, has been leading a child-rights-focused project that shines a light on children’s experiences with GenAI.
Specifically, RIGHTS.AI explores children’s interactions with GenAI, focusing on their expectations, fears, hopes and imaginations while assessing the impact of AI on their rights, creativity and development.
Join us for the launch of our new findings from Brazil, India, Kenya and Thailand.
Meet our speakers and chair
Ivelise Fortim (Brazil) is a psychologist, lecturer and researcher at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, specialising in digital games. Ivelise is president of Instituto Criança em Jogo, an NGO dedicated to protecting children in the digital gaming environment, and she founded Homo Ludens, which provides research and consultancy in creative industries.
Jennifer Kaberi (Kenya) is a child development specialist. Jennifer founded Mtoto News, a social enterprise that uses technology to improve children's lives, co-founded Kutunga, which trains software engineers to create ethical and context-sensitive technologies and she is currently working on the African Union Child Online Safety Model Law.
Kruakae Pothong (Thailand) has a policy and journalism background and now works in digital ethics, human-computer interaction and data protection. Kruakae recent research has explored the relationship between developers, their work and their consideration of children's rights in digital enviroments.
Usha Raman (India) is a professor in the Department of Communication in the University of Hyderabad and co-founder of the IDRC-funded initiative FemLabCo, which explores the future of women’s work. Her recent book, Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India, explores the relationship between media, psychology and children's lives.
Chair: Sonia Livingstone (UK) is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. She is Director of the Digital Futures for Children centre and completes research in the intersection of children's rights and digital environments.
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The Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC) is a joint research centre between 5Rights Foundation and the London School of Economics' Department of Media and Communications. The DFC conducts research to advocate for children's rights in the digital environment, aligned with General comment No. 25. Follow the DFC on Linkedin.
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