Children and generative AI
At a Glance
18-02-2025
Children are intensive users of digital tools such as artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI – AI that can create new content such as text, images, videos and music – is becoming increasingly sophisticated, making it difficult to distinguish user-generated content from AI-generated (synthetic) content. If not supervised properly, these tools might carry risks for children, whose cognitive capacities are still developing. The need to strengthen generative AI literacy for children, educators and parents is therefore growing increasingly important, along with greater efforts by industry and enhanced implementation of AI legislation, including monitoring indicators.
At a Glance
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- artificial intelligence
- child
- cognitive skills
- communications
- demography and population
- digital literacy
- digital technology
- education
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU strategy
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- software
- technology and technical regulations
- virtual community