P2089.4 AI Systems Impacting Children

Title:  Standard for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems Impacting Children

Scope: This standard is based on the principles of age-appropriate design defined in IEEE Std 2089. It specifies a full lifecycle process for the design, development, and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that may affect children. It takes the Children & AI Code as a foundation by which to do this. The standard addresses actions to take across preparation, intention, data, development, deployment, monitoring, transparency, user reporting and redress, and decommissioning. It does not make assumptions about the specific type of AI or the context of the organization deploying the standard.

Need for the Project:  Children are around a third of the global population, yet are disproportionately early adopters of digital technologies, with AI being no different. Children’s needs, rights, and views are severely under-represented in policy debate and industry practice, which can and does lead to digital harms such as invasive profiling or AI-generated child abuse images. Practical measures are required to ensure that children’s development needs and rights (as defined in international human rights frameworks) are met.