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Guidance on AI and Children — Version 3.0

Children should be empowered with access to, and opportunity to benefit from, AI systems. Building on this foundation, the guidance presents ten requirements for child-centred AI, complementing key work already underway, but with a central focus on children.

WhitepaperDec 2025
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ArticleSovereign AI

Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models

OpenAI and Anthropic executives are sounding the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly powerful new models produced in China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks without regulation.

July 2026
ResearchHumane AI

SocraticLM: Exploring Socratic Personalized Teaching with Large Language Models:

The paper proposes SocraticLM, an approach that achieves a Socratic, “thought-provoking” teaching paradigm. How it fulfills the role of a real classroom teacher by actively engaging students in the thought process required for genuine problem-solving mastery.

Dec 2024
ResearchHumane AI

AI Chatbots Have an “Empathy Gap” That Children Are Likely to Miss

The research, by a University of Cambridge academic, provides evidence that children are particularly susceptible to treating AI chatbots as lifelike, quasi-human confidantes, and that their interactions with the technology can often go awry when it fails to respond to their unique needs and vulnerabilities.

July 2024
WhitepaperAccessible AI

Indian responsible-AI framework

Establishes the India-specific principles of safety, reliability, equality, inclusion, privacy, security, transparency, accountability and protection of positive human values.

Feb 2021
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