Youth Voices on AI: Shaping a Safer Digital Future
Working with children and young people to shape generative AI development and regulation for a safer digital world.
Our Vision
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming education, work, entertainment, and how we socialise. The Youth Voices on AI project uses generative AI to engage children and young people in shaping the design, implementation and evaluation of generative AI technologies, to help keep them safe from digital harms, including online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA).
Our Project Plan
In this project, we are using generative AI to conduct research with 500 children and young people (aged 13-24) to understand their use of, and attitudes towards generative AI, the challenges they believe generative AI poses to their safety, and how AI platforms can prevent harm, particularly in relation to OCSEA. In partnership with Save the Children, Common Good AI, The Australian eSafety Commissioner and Anthropic, we will seek the input of children and young people in a dynamic response and ranking collaborative exercise to reach a consensus on actionable insights for generative AI regulation and development. The digital collaboration will be hosted on the CrowdSmart platform, which will enable participants to both submit their responses to questions, and rank responses submitted by other participants. This will take place across three separate collaborations, over a five-week period, with each collaboration building on insights from the previous round of collaboration.
Project History
This project follows on from Young & Resilient’s first project to be funded by the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund, in which we worked with Save the Children International on the Protecting Children from Online Grooming project. This project explored the insights of children and young people in seven countries on how to improve the policies, research and advocacy to prevent online grooming and solicitation.
What impact will this research have?
Young people will be sharing their ideas to help shape generative AI policy and design, so that generative AI is safer, fairer, and easier for children to use and understand.
Outputs
The project will generate:
- a report detailing the findings
- a Youth Constitution for Generative AI and Online Safety
- a slide-deck summary of key findings
- recommendations for technology companies for generative AI development
- policy recommendations for generative AI and child safety
- and a child-friendly summary
Please keep an eye on this space or email the team if you wish to be sent a copy of any of these outputs.
Collaboration Team
Internal Collaborators
Prof. Amanda Third
Dr. Kim Lam
Dr. Nukte Ogun
Dr. Pavithra Rajan
External Collaborators/Partners
Office of the Australian eSafety Commissioner
Funding
This project is funded by the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund.
Period
February 2025 to December 2025
Contact
If you would like to get in touch with the Youth Voices on AI team, please email Dr. Kim Lam at kim.lam@westernsydney.edu.au.
