· Safety protection

The development of AI should help protect and promote children's physical and mental safety. AI should help protect children from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, and help combat child trafficking, indecency, and other crimes.
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

· Fairness
The development of AI should treat and serve all children fairly and should not cause discrimination or harm to any child. The research and application of AI shall not make any distinction as to the child's, his or her parent's, legal guardians', or other caregivers' race, color, gender, language, religion, political or other opinions, nationality, or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status, as far as the fundamental rights of the child are concerned.

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

· Physical and mental health
The development of AI should help protect and promote children's physical and mental health. For instance, AI could help to enhance the ability to diagnose and treat childhood diseases, help to tackle children's nutrition and health issues caused by poverty, hunger, environmental pollution, and other problems, and help to protect children's normal cognition, character, ability, health habits, and behaviors.

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

· Privacy protection
The development of AI should protect children's privacy in a much stricter manner. The collection of information on children should follow the principle of "legal, proper and necessary", ensure their guardians' informed consent, and avoid illegal collection and abuse of children's information. AI systems should ensure that children, parents, legal guardians, or other caregivers have the rights to consent, refuse, erase data, revoke authorizations, etc.

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

· Train and guide
Children, parents, legal guardians, or other caregivers should be actively guided to recognize and understand AI services properly. Multi channel and multi form training approaches can be applied to guide children, parents, legal guardians, or other caregivers to gain a reasonable knowledge of AI, and to avoid the possible blind faith, obsession, or misinterpretation of AI.

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

2 Promote human well being, human safety and the public interest
AI technologies should not harm people. They should satisfy regulatory requirements for safety, accuracy and efficacy before deployment, and measures should be in place to ensure quality control and quality improvement. Thus, funders, developers and users have a continuous duty to measure and monitor the performance of AI algorithms to ensure that AI technologies work as designed and to assess whether they have any detrimental impact on individual patients or groups. Preventing harm requires that use of AI technologies does not result in any mental or physical harm. AI technologies that provide a diagnosis or warning that an individual cannot address because of lack of appropriate, accessible or affordable health care should be carefully managed and balanced against any “duty to warn” that might arise from incidental and other findings, and appropriate safeguards should be in place to protect individuals from stigmatization or discrimination due to their health status.

Published by World Health Organization (WHO) in Key ethical principles for use of artificial intelligence for health, Jun 28, 2021

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