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Call for proactive AI safeguards for children before widespread adoption

Confirmed1 source · Oct 18, 2026

A commentator argues that policymakers have an opportunity to establish research and protections around AI's impact on children, contrasting with the reactive approach taken to social media.

Call for proactive AI safeguards for children before widespread adoption
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What happened

An author argues that children will inevitably grow up with AI and contends that society now has the chance to build research infrastructure, safeguards, and scientific guidance to understand AI's effects on children before the technology becomes deeply embedded in their lives.

Context

The author frames the question as whether policymakers and researchers can act proactively this time to build research and safeguards with child safety in mind, implicitly suggesting that the approach to social media was insufficiently proactive.