· Growth

The development of AI should protect and promote the free development and diversified growth of children. AI should promote the development of children's multiple intelligences and personalities, actively provide feedbacks to children's curiosity, help stimulate children's potential, and help guide children to form sound and scientific values.
Principle: Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development.

Related Principles

· Children first
The development of AI should give priority to benefiting children. The research, design, development, deployment, and use of AI should prioritize the needs, rights, and interests of children, prioritize the adequate protection of children, and prioritize the promotion of children's development.

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development. in Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

· Quality education
The development of AI should help provide more inclusive, fairer, and quality education for children. The development of AI should help protect children's right to education, help provide children with scientific, high quality, and ethical educations, help children fully develop their personalities, talents, and abilities, and help avoid dangerous, coercive, unhealthy, and immoral educations.

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development. in Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

1. Support children's development and well being
Prioritize how AI systems can benefit children, in particular in AI policies and strategies. Develop and apply a design for a child rights approach. Leverage AI systems to support and increase children's well being and environmental sustainability.

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

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

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

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