Researches

While there is a plethora of AI ethics principles, very few have considered from children’s perspective. OxfordCCAI has taken a deep dive of the current AI ethics principles globally, consolidated their terminologies and discussions, and contextualised them against children’s context, to see how they may related to children.

Children are often regarded as not having the competence for agency or decision-making. However, this does not mean that their best interests should not be respected, nor that their voices should be excluded from the process of innovations.

Children are growing up surrounded by technology, with their online digital footprints tracked, analyzed, and often monetized. While the digital landscape offers countless opportunities for learning and exploration, it also exposes children to a myriad of datafication risks, including harmful profiling, micro-targeting, and behavioral manipulation.