AI & Children: How to deliver on rights-respecting innovation?

  • Workshop
  • Music Room
  • Wednesday 21.05 — 08:45 - 10:00

Organising Institution

5Rights Foundation

Europe

5Rights fights for systemic change so the digital world respects children’s rights and caters to their needs by design and default. We amplify children’s voices, build capacity, and deliver ground-breaking research, legal frameworks, and technical tools. Our work raises awareness, shifts narratives, and re-centers policy and technical approaches around children’s needs while fostering a sustainable ecosystem for tech accountability.
Children are early adopters of technologies, including products and services that use or embed AI. Yet, their needs, rights and views remain largely overlooked in public, policy and technical debates. Together with leading experts, 5Rights developed the Children and AI Design Code to offer a practical and actionable framework for regulators and innovators. Building on the Code and using concrete examples, the workshop will offer practical insights into how children are impacted by AI systems and how innovation can be child-rights respecting. A facilitated discussion will also be held on the possibility to establish concrete technical guidance under the AI Act for implementation and enforcement of robust requirements for children.

Host

Leanda Barrington-Leach

5Rights Foundation - Europe

Leanda Barrington-Leach is the Executive Director of the 5Rights Foundation, where she leads the work of the global team across research, youth engagement, advocacy, standardisation and compliance, fighting for the digital world to cater for children, by design and default. Leanda is a passionate life-long advocate for human rights, with more than two decades experience in international policy spanning diplomacy, strategic consultancy and charity sector work. She joined 5Rights from the European External Action Service where she was Adviser to the Secretary General focusing on Strategic Communications and the fight against Disinformation.

Host

Natalia Giorgi

European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) - Europe

Natalia Giorgi has a long-standing experience working in standardisation, representing the interests of societal stakeholders. Currently at the ETUC, the European Trade Union Confederation, she is working in an EU and EFTA funded project aimed at strengthening the representation and participation of workers in standardisation. Natalia is responsible for digitalisation, including AI, and her responsibilities consist essentially in monitoring the EU policy and regulatory developments in AI and assessing them in relation to workers’ rights and standardisation.