Peer-reviewed article
Preliminary Considerations on Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Cyber Safety for the Protection of Children
Michael M. Losavio ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5The article argues that the spread of computing and artificial intelligence has created new risks for society, including new ways to commit crimes such as child exploitation. It says there is a social responsibility to build systems that reduce these risks. It notes that because the harm involves expression, any response has to take into account the rules that protect expression from government regulation. The article focuses on the online abuse of children as one example of expression-related misconduct.
Key points
- Pervasive computing has created new kinds of systemic risks and societal vulnerabilities.
- AI, machine learning and pattern recognition can analyse very large amounts of information and be used to interfere with the rights and liberties of others, including by revealing intimate aspects of their lives.
- These technologies have offered new means of criminality, from financial offences to child exploitation.
- There is a social responsibility to develop systems that reduce the risks posed by information and communication technologies.
- Efforts to address expression-related misconduct must take into account rules that protect expression from government regulation.
Limitations
Only a short abstract is available, so it gives no detail on the methods, evidence, specific countries or the proposed solutions. It appears to be a conceptual discussion and does not evaluate any intervention.
Abstract
Pervasive computing has abused information and communication technologies and created new kinds of systemic risks and societal vulnerabilities. With the rise of artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, and pattern recognition systems, all those petabytes of information can be analysed and used to seriously interfere with the rights and liberties of others, and, in particular, it can be used to reveal the most intimate aspects of the lives of others. This, in turn, has offered new and unheard means of criminality, ranging from financial offenses to child exploitation. Therefore, there is a social responsibility for developing systems capable of mitigating the risks that the development of information and communications technologies poses to society. Given that this particular threat involves expression, efforts to mitigate expression-related misconduct must attend to rules that protect expression from government regulation. This article considers one particular area of expression-related misconduct, namely the online abuse of children.