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7. Empower governments and businesses with knowledge of AI and children's rights

Ensure capacity building on AI and child rights for policymakers, top management and AI system developers. Capitalize on customers' demand for trusted and transparent AI solutions for children. Commit to child centred AI and put in place mechanisms to realize this in practice.

Principle: Requirements for child-centred AI, Sep 16, 2020

Published by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of

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• Foster Innovation and Open Development

To better understand the impact of AI and explore the broad diversity of AI implementations, public policy should encourage investment in AI R&D. Governments should support the controlled testing of AI systems to help industry, academia, and other stakeholders improve the technology. [Recommendations] • Fuel AI innovation: Public policy should promote investment, make available funds for R&D, and address barriers to AI development and adoption. • Address global societal challenges: AI powered flagship initiatives should be funded to find solutions to the world’s greatest challenges such as curing cancer, ensuring food security, controlling climate change, and achieving inclusive economic growth. • Allow for experimentation: Governments should create the conditions necessary for the controlled testing and experimentation of AI in the real world, such as designating self driving test sites in cities. • Prepare a workforce for AI: Governments should create incentives for students to pursue courses of study that will allow them to create the next generation of AI. • Lead by example: Governments should lead the way on demonstrating the applications of AI in its interactions with citizens and invest sufficiently in infrastructure to support and deliver AI based services. • Partnering for AI: Governments should partner with industry, academia, and other stakeholders for the promotion of AI and debate ways to maximize its benefits for the economy.

Published by Intel in AI public policy principles, Oct 18, 2017

2. Ensure inclusion of and for children

Strive for diversity amongst those who design, develop, collect and process data, implement, research, regulate and oversee AI systems. Adopt an inclusive design approach when developing AI products that will be used by children or impact them. Support meaningful child participation, both in AI policies and in the design and development processes.

Published by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of in Requirements for child-centred AI, Sep 16, 2020

6. Provide transparency, explainability and accountability for children

Strive to explicitly address children when promoting explainability and transparency of AI systems. Use age appropriate language to describe AI. Make AI systems transparent to the extent that children and their caregivers can understand the interaction. Develop AI systems so that they protect and empower child users according to legal and policy frameworks, regardless of children's understanding of the system. Review, update and develop AI related regulatory frameworks to integrate child rights. Establish AI oversight bodies compliant with principles and regulations and set up mechanisms for redress.

Published by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of in Requirements for child-centred AI, Sep 16, 2020

8. Prepare children for present and future developments in AI

Develop and update formal and informal education programmes globally to include technical and soft skills needed to flourish in an AI world, including in the future workplace. Consider a national self assessment for teachers to assess and then develop their AI awareness and skills. Leverage the use of AI systems in education, when it is appropriate. Facilitate and encourage collaboration between businesses and educational institutions. Develop and promote awareness campaigns for parents, caregivers and society as a whole.

Published by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of in Requirements for child-centred AI, Sep 16, 2020

9. Create an enabling environment for child centred AI

Support infrastructure development to address the digital divide and aim for equitable sharing of the benefits of AI. Provide funding and incentives for child centred AI policies and strategies. Support research on AI for and with children across the system's life cycle. Engage in digital cooperation.

Published by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of in Requirements for child-centred AI, Sep 16, 2020