Description: The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) places children in a changing environment with new applications (social robots and generative AI) impacting their online and offline lives. Our workshop takes a multistakeholder approach to present our work on the development of AI for children’s Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as a means to enhance global collaboration, peace, emphathy between people and sustainability for current and future societies. We present AI-mediated GCE use cases based on the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, UNESCO’s GCE frameworks and the work of the Ban Ki-moon Centre. First, we discuss the opportunities AI brings for GCE. Many children face challenges such as social injustice and violence. Speakers will describe how AI policies contribute to the design, development and evaluation of AI to empower children and their communities with a commitment to support them to become responsible global citizens. We have invited the President of the HONDA Research Institute, Japan who will elaborate on AI systems and our corresponding studies that bring students from 15 different countries together in safe online environments with a pluralistic perspective for AI. We include schools in Africa and Global South and the participation of a high-school student to present children’s perspectives. Secondly, we will focus on the current challenges AI brings for children’s rights, including online safety, privacy, non-discrimination, mental health and algorithmic fairness and the urgency for equity in infrastructure and teachers’ training. One of our speakers will present the current challenges and practices in Kenya while our last speaker, as a member of the UN GS AI Advisory Body will elaborate on how children’s needs have been taken into account for the UN work on AI Governance. The session will conclude with the participation of the audience, a reflection and the presentation of our next steps.
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