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On 10-12 March, global experts, policymakers, and children gathered in Georgia to celebrate the the 35th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The General Comment No. 25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment was formally adopted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child(UNCRC) in February (2021).

February 11 is the Safter Internet Day of 2025. As part of Data Privacy Day on January 28, Senior Researcher Dr Jun Zhao (Jun Z.) spoke to ITV about her research, describing how users’ online activity and data can be aggregated and used by scammers to create tailored privacy attacks.

We are very pleased to share that Oxford CCAI team has recently received two new research grants to boost our AI Ethical Design programme, jointly launched with FamStudio and Oxford Reuben College.

2025 begins with a landmark event hosted by Round Square, a partner non-profit organisation of Oxford CCAI. This Headmaster’s Symposium brought together around 150 School Heads in the audience from around 40 countries.

While 2024 is drawing close to an end, we look back at Oxford CCAI of 2024 and share a few upcoming dates for 2025. Launch of CHAILD – Children’s Agency In the age of AI: Leveraging InterDisciplinarity We are delighted to announce that we have received an award from the UKRI Cross-Disciplinary Response Mode to support our collaboration with philosophers from Oxford and learning scientists from UCL.

We cannot treat children as subjects of AI experimentation - as it increasingly becomes part of their childhood, we must ensure AI governance supports their rights and development needs, incorporating safety from the start.

We are incredibly excited to be part of Oxford’s newly launched AI in Education at Oxford University (AIEOU), led by Dr Sara Ratner, Professor Elizabeth Wonnacott and Professor Rebecca Williams.

On November 20, the World Children’s Day, we attended the Lego and ATI’s Children and AI event at the headquarter of the British Computer Society, London. This marks a new project funded by the LEGO Group with research from The Alan Turing Institute on understanding the impacts of generative AI use on children.

On November 19, we attended UNICEF’s global launch of the RITEC Design Toolbox (RDT), part of the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) initiative in partnership between UNICEF and the LEGO Group and supported by The LEGO Foundation.

On November 18, Dr Jun Zhao, joined Professor Ekaterina Hertog and Professor Netta Weinstein to talk about parental control technologies and how these may be affecting modern families at the podcast chaired by the Founder and CEO of ParentZone, Vicky Shotbolt.