 Hello everyone and welcome. Good morning from where I am, which is the West Coast of Canada. But of course, we have panelists, we have the audience members from all over the world. So good afternoon and good evening depending on where you are, especially if you're joining from different time zones. I am Georgia Bose. I'm technology correspondent at CNBC Business News and I am thrilled and honored to be participating and moderating this incredibly important discussion. Today's workshop is of course organized by the World Economic Forum's Generation AI Project which examines children and artificial intelligence. We will hear more about the project after the panel discussion. So do stay tuned for that. Now before we wanted to kick off, I just wanted to tell you a little bit about what I've been spending a lot of my year doing and professionally that is it's been a lot of talking about next generation technologies like AI, machine learning, robotics, and more on TV. Without a doubt, one of the biggest stories of this year that has kept myself and many of my colleagues busy is TikTok. At the core of that story, the saga is about an AI algorithm with an incredibly popular app in the hands of our youth. It has led to geopolitical tensions, debates over national security, and the ability of artificial intelligence to empower and potentially endanger. So it could not be more timely to have this discussion, I for one am glad, that it's not happening on TV where we have only a few minutes to tackle these really interesting and often difficult subjects but that we have 40 minutes and then some breakout sessions to talk through all of this and we will not be talking about TikTok but we will be talking about some of those underlying issues. We'll examine the topics of children, youth, and AI through the sustainable development goals. We will discuss children's rights in a digital age, reducing the digital divide, leveraging artificial intelligence to improve education, and strategies to partner with and empower youth. We have an incredibly esteemed, diverse group to discuss all of this with and with that let me introduce our speakers. We have Dr. Fayez King, he is a deputy executive director at UNICEF. We also have Dr. Virginia Dingham, is a professor of ethical and social artificial intelligence at UMEA University in Sweden. You'll notice her backdrop, which is beautiful, is actually the northern lights. Dr. Ronald Dahl, Ron is a professor at the University of California Berkeley and director of the Institute of Human Development so we are normally neighbors because I'm based in San Francisco. Dr. David Munoz-Sange, we hope that we'll join us throughout the session. He is minister of basic and senior secondary education in Sierra Leone. We also have Mr. Alexander, the yakken is the first deputy chairman of the executive board at Spurbank and Ms. Sandrine Rutia III Amahoro is a member of the world economic forms inaugural AI youth council and student at Gasora Girls Academy in Rwanda and I mean what better than have someone who can actually live these issues and speak to them so I'm thrilled that she could join us. We will also be hearing later on from Ms. Henrietta Ford, executive director at UNICEF, who will join us for closing remarks at the end of the session so welcome to everyone. I don't know if everyone can see but you can give a little wave. I'm switching to my gallery mode. Hello everyone. It is great that you could be with us in your respective time zones. So let's let's just jump right in because I am very excited for this session and I think we've got some great questions and great issues and as I said before engagement we love engagement so feel free to jump in if you hear something that you like. Let's start with Mr. Faiz King. Faiz, what are the most pervasive, some of the most difficult challenges and risks that youth globally face in terms of technology and in particular artificial intelligence today? Great. Thank you, dear Dre. The very pervasiveness of artificial intelligence is why we're here today. Children and young people will have the greatest exposure to AI over the course of their life. AI will be integrated into information they receive, the opportunities they afforded and the services that they enjoy. Because of this there are major concerns around privacy, freedom, access to knowledge and access to services and opportunities. We're still at the infancy, the beginning stages to see the full impact of AI and machine learning on a child's life and this can only be imagined. Regardless it's our responsibility as advocates for child rights to ensure that AI is conceived of and designed, implemented and monitored with children and particularly the most vulnerable in mind. The ability to gather huge amounts of data comes with issues of privacy, of freedom and these can be addressed through awareness of risks, policies that safeguard children because there will be those inevitable breaches especially when we are gathering data. Data needs to be collected and be proportional to the need. When the challenge is automated, discrimination and exclusion bias creeps in. The more we know, the better. The high resolution population data has great potential for improving especially humanitarian operations but understanding and addressing these biases of machines needs human intervention. For example, UNICEF is using AI technology to tackle the threat of disease outbreaks, not just COVID but Ebola, Zika, denu and others. In recent years the availability of data on human behavior combined with environmental measures have led to great advances in our ability to model and predict epidemics. In support of this, we work with Telefonica through data philanthropy, has shared and processed mobility data with us to provide insights and movements in epidemics and epidemiology. But the best is that the data sets need to be looked at with care. UNICEF is developing a methodology to quantify bias and our scientists are building models around this that we are able to convey data from different sources and produce a more accurate view. Finally, every day the digital divide grows as AI systems expand inequalities rise with regards as to who has access to these technologies and the opportunities to access these efforts. UNICEF has partnered with a multiple number of organizations to bring accessibility to 3.6 billion children around the world. Efforts to use AI whilst mitigating against the risks must always be taken into consideration. So in this we invite the private sector, we invite everybody around us to share knowledge and let's co-create so that we address these issues around children. Thank you for asking. Thank you Faiz and what a great way to lay out some of the opportunities but also the challenges and certainly the digital divide is something that's never been so important especially amid a global pandemic. Let's go to Sandrine next because I would love to know how you feel, how today's youth feel about AI technology and as a youth leader what excites you about AI's positive impact but also if you can speak to perhaps some of the things that might worry you Sandrine. Thank you so when when it comes to youth today I think the problem that they most struggle with is involvement in AI technology. I mean with 51% of the global population being on social media most of the time we hear them talk about the dangers and the risks of AI technology instead of the positive impact and that not for one you tends to show AI in a negative light and they tend to see AI as the displacement of jobs instead as an advantage that could help us enhance human limitations and create machines that could could assess that but for me what excites me when when it comes to AI technologies is its ability to explore new horizons that we otherwise thought were impossible. I mean being these days you see the new technologies evolve Safer, Alexa, autonomous cars you know and to be honest all those things I would see in cinema but now seeing them being put into play in real life systems is just triggering and exciting for me so that now AI being able to embrace and go beyond our imagination and help us solve humanities pressing problems at the moment triggers and excites me to and to knowing what AI is all about and pursuing the career. Thank you. That's fascinating Sandrine especially the notion that perhaps today's youth are more worried about it than they are excited about it so your perspective is is really interesting I wonder too if I could just follow up with that what are the ways that you and others interact with AI you mentioned Alexa is it through social media platforms what are some of the ways that you like to interact with AI and perhaps if there's any that you don't like interacting I know some people get worried about giving all of their information to Amazon and therefore Amazon's assistant Alexa. Yeah well my interaction with AI came when I was interested in how a machine is able to understand and you know predict whatever I was going to say say Siri and Alexa is what triggered me the most being able to have an assistant that performs every simple task that I could do but you know provides that assistance like it's a person and a human that that really brought that really brought the AI technology to life for me and also when it comes to social media platforms and even in education and even in education when they when they use technology to be able to measure the concentration of children and all these and and it being applied in all these fields I think AI has done a lot a lot for us. Great and I hope we didn't just trigger everyone's Siri's or Alexa's or Google Assistant's by talking here maybe I just did. Sandrine thank you for that overview. Dr. Ron Dahl I would like to ask you as a developmental scientist in the academic side of things how does technology affect children and youth we heard from Fias about some of the bias that can become inherent we heard from Sandrine some of the positive ways that it's viewed by the youth and also some of the not so positive ways so how does it actually from your studies and your findings how does it affect today's children and youths Ron. Thank you so I think there are a couple framing issues that have already come up how do we balance the positive effects and the vulnerabilities in many ways what technology and AI in particular is doing is expanding learning opportunities and learning vulnerabilities and our motivation to engage and provide access to young people so they can use these tools in ways that are going to help them learn and be successful is always balanced with the vulnerabilities of how that could actually you know create a challenge new challenges but those change across development how that is how that precarious balance is best managed when young people are young children mid childhood early adolescence mid adolescence late adolescence is continuously changing not just a function of age but as a function of experience and maturity the goal from a developmental science point of view is how do we inform in a multidisciplinary team-based approach understanding how to make the positive aspects of these technologies and capabilities larger than the vulnerabilities that everyone has been aware of and is worried about and this is really going to take these multi perspective integrative approaches and they're very different in different contexts and for different ages and stages of development we know a lot about these developmental processes from many other aspects of studying development AI is amplifying the opportunities and vulnerabilities in really exciting ways but also concerning ways and these kinds of discussions and bringing together people with different kinds of insights are really going to be crucial to try to tip that balance to increase the positive opportunities while diminishing the vulnerabilities and ron if I could just follow up with you as well what are some of those sort of real life opportunities and some of the things that we need to be worried about why we're having this panel so I think there are a couple things and one is to think about windows of development when particular kinds of experiences may really have long-term impact I and I think the second thing is that sometimes we think about learning as primarily information but learning is also shaping our social and emotional development our values our sense of identity we're we're experiencing the world through these technologies and so really understanding in more specific ways the kinds of vulnerabilities at different times in development but also that the that the edge between opportunity and risk and vulnerability is often a really delicate balance when we're trying to protect young people we can actually interfere with the learning if we promote autonomy and exploration we can increase the risk so it's really going to require combining knowledge from different fields to inform how do we develop policies practices engage stakeholders in business to think in a deeper way about using all the knowledge we have to promote positive growth and development in young people through these technologies while minimizing the risks Virginia you are the lead author of UNICEF's policy guidance on AI for Children that was recently released we just heard from Ron about this delicate balance and you know from our other participants why this is so significant what are the goals though of this guidance thank you thank you for the question indeed the this guidance came from the first from the realization that there is a lot of documents and strategies and principles coming about on how to use AI how to develop AI in a trustworthy and human-centered way but a lot of these documents a lot of these principles and guidance strategic guidance are not addressing the specific issues of children directly so with UNICEF and with these guidance we tried to address exactly the policymakers and the business on how they can address the children rights and the specific needs and requirements for children in their design and development and use of AI across a public and private space so the focus are the foundations for this guidance are three aspects protecting children of course ensuring that AI is doing no harm to no child but that's only one of the parts so that the foundation is ensure that AI is providing for children in a way that children are empowered to build their own development and their own future in a way that they are participating in the way in the in the way AI is being developed and also in the way they are able to use or to profit from AI from these three foundations protection providing and participation for children we propose in this document nine requirements which are all centered around supporting through AI children's development and well-being and that means that we have to ensure of course a fairness non-discrimination privacy safety and so on but also that we government and policymakers and business should be able to create an enabling environment in which all can contribute to this child centered AI proposal at this moment the document is open for consultations so we welcome through the website of UNICEF all comments and suggestions and ideas on the document it's still a few more weeks is open and we really open hope that with this document the government's private and public sector really starts taking the child rights central in the way that AI is being used and developed absolutely a lot of collaboration and what we will get I see a comment from the audience we will get the name of the document perhaps Virginia you could provide a link so that people can access that next I'd like to go to minister Sange for sort of this real life example what is the government of Sierra Leone doing to address the digital divide and what can other developing and middle-income countries learn from your experience yeah thank you I think in terms of the digital divide one it's just policy it's principles the directorate of science technology and innovation launch what we called the national innovation and digital strategy and the strategy is title digitization for all and what that means is we have to bring digitization for all and for you to be able to do that your guiding principles our guiding principles one is mobile first and first lots of people who connect are connecting via mobile another one is hybrid technology so online offline web mobile radio connectivity for all and then country as AI lab like artificial intelligence lab and parts of the framework there is when we use big data data science to solve problems you at a national level you're able to get better outcomes so in practice for example when COVID happened we use mobile first solutions to build self-check and information provided as for for COVID and symptom check and trackers that was SMS and ESSB based that now has about five or five million plus uses in two months so after we launched it from over 200,000 unique users we are engaging on policy with with with WEF particularly with with the drone consortium and we have a drone corridor that we launched with UNICEF and with Giga we are looking to have connectivity for all and more recently again through WEF we had a Coursera workforce development that I was at an event today one of my colleague carrying that minister asked him to tell me that he had he's always direct to sign up for that and he himself had signed up for class and and I think it's that we understand that the president's vision is human capital development and he can't deliver human capital development without digitization and you can't really move a few people you have to move everybody and so for example in my ministry I lead as well the ministry of education we have a policy of radical inclusion which means we have to ensure that everyone everywhere can have access to the same quality of education often it means that we have to bring digitization and data and hybrid technology solutions so it's it really is it has to be a desire and we are lucky if the president believes in this and the STI sits in the office of the president and I as chief innovation officer do have a cabinet portfolio so we can move things at the highest levels that we need that's fascinating a lot of different angles that you you look at this with the mobile first contact tracing so so relevant in this moment we are in right now six months at least in the US six months into the pandemic let me get to Alexander next we've heard from public sector and the nonprofit sector think about the use of artificial intelligence but and the digital divide how can the private sector though you're in a unique position to address this how can the private sector work with governments and nonprofits to address the digital divide how do you think of this thank you very much this is for us as a private sector is really important question and actually I think all together we should learn how to manage all key risks of development of AI technologies and we have enough of this this is and all those risks especially for children digital divide and social discrimination especially in the for the young people this is really important loss of control of AI system and possible harm to a child that's robotics and so on in comprehension of AI technologies and the unpredictability not enough consistency and security of our decision support systems and you talked about tiktok yes and this is about recommendation system and this is really important but I would recommend for my child and this is more than important and actually also AI could be used for bad reasons like manipulating public opinion fake news and especially among young people on the social networks this is this is really it could be really dangerous and somehow the we should understand how we will manage AI and I think the must on the international level to start discussion about ethics AI principle so to say for us we see we have this discussion inside of our organization we have the big bank we have 300 000 of employees more than 90 million of clients retail clients and so I did think about five five milestones so to say five five principles AI should be secure AI should be fair AI should be responsible AI should be explainable and reliable so and so when we have some so we could talk about this and we could have really fruitful discussion about this and this is thank you Alexander for our children absolutely you bring up a lot of really good points the ability for artificial intelligence to be used for censorship for propaganda how it can you know heighten that digital divide fires let's come to you back to you and let's talk about today a lot of our discussion is talking about what needs to happen but I'd like to ask you what UNICEF is doing today and how it's using AI to benefit children and youth and how would you like to collaborate with other sectors in the future so I would talk a bit about sorry Alexander that was a question I do want to get your view on this that was a question for Fias if you don't mind but we'll come back to you after briefly okay great great thanks dear great thanks for that UNICEF actively works to identifying opportunities where new technologies and AI can strengthen our programming and positively impact the lives of children however it's essential we do know how mean the process and forever aim at providing equal access we work closely with the broad range of partners and stakeholders in this space and we welcome collaboration I think collaboration is key here our approach to AI is both academic and also practical UNICEF recently partnered with GavLab at New York University to articulate principles on responsible use of data for children this built on existing frameworks using a specific child focus lens to understand the risks and concerns specific to children this work also created practical tools and support for our field staff our partners and governments to guide our own data and data technology investments last week we also launched draft policy guidelines specifically on AI for children in partnership with the government of Finland this was a broad consultative process that continues today we welcome all sectors to implement the guidance but also share the experience and let us know what's working and what's not so that we can go back and we refocus reprogram and and and reform as the world's leading organization for children UNICEF recognizes the potential that AI systems have especially for supporting every child's development in an effort to map every school in the world we were leveraging and improving AI algorithms to identify school structures from satellite imagery through machine learning this is happening in partnership with the private sector for instance Ericsson has committed funding and expertise to assist in with the collection the validation analysis monitoring and visual representation of our real-time school connectivity data this is a pathway to connectivity and digital learning which we've heard today that is foundational for providing opportunities to children no matter where they are to ensure better health outcomes children at UNICEF are applying AI to assist healthcare workers in rural areas with diagnostic decision and support mechanisms for pediatric clients this diagnosis support also helps forecast risk in complex or rapidly changing situations like we find ourselves in today in epidemic outbreaks we also using AI to improve education at student level remedial learning platforms for students with disabilities automate school workflow and provide accessible content and academic services to students who will flourish with this additional support but it's important that equity and of access and AI systems in their development is always there so UNICEF will continue to help define global standards for and how to engage in artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance children's lives thank you DJ thank you very much for that and let's talk more about equity and access Sandrine this next question is for you what are some of the challenges that women and girls in Rwanda face as they try simply to learn about artificial intelligence and do you have any ideas on some of the ways that this could perhaps be addressed and that one's for Sandrine please thank you for your question well when you look at the involvement of women in AI technology the big divide between the male and the female with the stigma that you know it tends to be tougher for the females but when this has led to a low rate of of engagement of women and girls being in the industry and pursuing careers I for one was introduced to AI when I was in good time and I normally I would see the I would see students come into the club and then go and then plot it after three days and this got me triggered and I wonder why and after some time I realized that there was that the the regardless of the stigma that sometimes AI can be seen as an impenetrable subject you know that for that it that it is that it seems to be difficult the exposure was a bit poorly timed because because because they lacked confidence they thought it was it was hard because they had been introduced to it at a later time at a later date in their lives so I was thinking if to give to enhance such to enhance their interest we if technology AI technology was introduced at a younger age to children then we can nurture we can nurture their interest and demystify AI technology you know make it make them familiar with it so that they grow to be confident and pursue careers in the industry. Thank you Sandrine and that's a great suggestion earlier the better for understanding and to bridge that there's that digital divide but there's also that gender divide thanks for your answer there Virginia have you seen similar things and also which applications of artificial intelligence provide the most promise and the most potential benefit to children and youth users around the world. Thank you Deidre just before I answer your question I would like just to make clear that we are talking about the technology a tool that has built by us AI is not a magical entity which can for all kinds of ways do things and unexpected or expected its technology is built with a purpose and we people set the purpose so it's very important to understand also that AI is not intelligent in the way that we are intelligent an AI system doesn't understand most cases the meaning of what is seen it can tell you that something is a cat or a dog or a child or an adult but it will not have an understanding of what it means to be a child or a cat or a dog so it's very important to take that into account when we are developing AI technology and when we are using this technology it's also when we talk about responsible AI and responsibility in AI is not the software itself which should be responsible but it's of course the all social environment and the institutions around it the ones who develop, who use, who deploy these systems which are responsible and which are accountable for the trustworthiness of these systems so when we talk about what type of applications work or don't work in a sense because of this and because AI is a general purpose technology it's in most cases we can use AI for positive or for a negative influence on children so if you take for instance AI powered toys which there are increasingly available around and which we talk about in the report these toys can provide children with capabilities and educational support in many different ways but also we can see concerns and there are many concerns being raised by the way that these toys deal with the privacy and safety for children the same with systems for biometric recognition which can be used in many we see many applications in which it can be used for supporting for instance identifying children in a war situation or in a refugee situation children which have been abducted we can use this type of technology in a very positive way but of course it can also be used in an extremely negative way of which we all know a lot of examples so it's not so much what technology can do but what we are doing with the technology and what we should be doing with the technology that's a great point Virginia thank you for making that clear it's not a magic bullet and the people behind it shape that technology so that's a whole big discussion also that I'm glad that you touched on Ron how can AI be leveraged in ways to benefit children's youth and educational experiences so a similar question that Virginia just answered but how do you view this especially sitting in a place like Silicon Valley where the future of AI is debated on a daily basis thank you I want to pick up on the theme that Virginia outlined when we think about learning and and to recognize that these human dimensions of learning around social experiences and values and motivations are equally as important as cognitive skills I think if we take too narrow of a goal with education about developing cognitive skills as much as reading and and math skills are essential what we know about the human brain is that it it's specialized for social learning and and things like meaning and purpose and value and the feeling that an individual matters that learning is powerful and if we aren't humble about AI and machine learning with a more narrow purpose I think we will um we won't do justice to the capabilities the second thing I would say is that there's an exciting set of collaborations between people who try to understand how children and adolescents actually learn um and do that with modeling and in the science of learning in in terms of why are children so much better than machine learning systems and AI systems and the collaborations between people who model and and do computational modeling for driving better AI and machine learning are increasingly collaborating with people who are trying to understand why children are so remarkably good at learning in complex situations and I think that could lead to a more integrative understanding of learning that could also help bridge this gap between a narrow set of goals driven by potentially commercial interests or people rushing forward with being able to improve some aspects of learning but not thinking about the whole child in a social context that is so crucial to the well-being of children not just their cognitive skills absolutely thank you for that answer Alexander you did outline earlier on in the session russia's national AI strategy with those six sections that you told us about but how do you see its deployment can you tell us a little bit about this especially when it comes to AI in youth thank you yes russia has a national AI strategy national AI development strategy and the strategy identifies key principles of ethical AI and the strategy sets up ethics principles to protect human rights including making sure the children are under protection as well so one of the key challenges of challenges of the strategy is the development of an accessible and affordable system for education and training of high-level AI specialists because for understanding children should start to learn about AI as early as they can and only after this they will use this technology for for good so for example we have national academic competition on AI for acceleration of more than 5000 team of students so we distinguish some in the initiatives aimed to development AI technologies into a separate stream AI for good and we have a really strong ESG agenda and the push our children to this ESG agenda for example this year it will be a russian wide competition about how to prevent east east of russia from flutes because that's always a problem and somehow we could predict some flutes of river amur and children will solve this problem based on AI also in history i mean this AI decoding of manuscripts of peter the great so children will actually decoding based on AI manuscript of our the biggest side so so based on AI the push children to solving problems of the entire society of ecology of social and this is our vision based from our national AI strategy and for sure we will be happy when in our hackathon this is AI journey will participate other children from from other countries thank you very much that's that's incredible and an example too if you give children the tools that they can solve some of the most critical problems so thank you for bringing that to us minister sangay i want to ask you what policies is your government thinking of introducing to the children of Sierra Leone to give them the opportunity to succeed in the age of AI um i think before i was before i joined cabinet there was a four-hour cabinet paper that the uh minister of high-end technical um was was pushing we definitely um so at the cabinet level we're looking at seeing how we can bring um eight for our um subjects including an AI then um at high-end technical institutions the causes that we make available then we have scholarships available for any woman who wants to do science them all the way through their education um and we create a pipeline of opportunities for people living in university to to to be a entrepreneur as you know the the the vision for BSTI is um to use science technology and innovation to address national development challenges and to make Sierra Leone into one innovation and entrepreneurial hub so it's also about building an an ecosystem in the basic and science of country education we just launched a curriculum framework um as in one of one of my one of the work that we've done and there are five C's that now this next week they're rewriting all of the syllabus in all of basic education i think 16 subjects reflect this one is civics the other one is critical thinking um computational thinking so this is where that ties in computational thinking comprehension and critical thinking a combination of critical thinking and computational thinking we call them the five C's um are important and it's all linked to what what the panelists have been saying AI for good you have to be able to understand civics for you to be able to use your compositional thinking and critical thinking to problem solve in matters that will transform your country and you have to be able to comprehend the problem and comprehend the analysis so the five C's are all intricately linked to use creativity and design and stem stem AI for to problem solve something that will transform your country and it's a mix of um several things when it's education to high technical education to development and workforce um rescuing and building ecosystems for that as well thank you for that i love i love these real life examples that puts a lot of the issues we talk about into practice cindy and i'd like to end with you conclude with you because um i know we started out this panel and you said something really interesting you said that youth may be worried about the effects you were optimistic um after this discussion after hearing from both the public and the private and the non-profit sector how do you feel are you hopeful do you think that AI can be used for good to empower children and youth around the world thank you thank you for giving me this from from what i've heard AI for good your the mission is using is using this promoting AI technology as well as keeping in mind the risks that AI might bring I thank you so much for your consideration of the youth right now giving me this platform to be to be able to talk before distinguished individuals like yourselves it only only motivates me and helps me to engage in the in the fields even more i want to want to thank the people who are breaking the mold and going beyond beyond thought to realize all these AI imaginations that are being put into play at the moment and i feel motivated as well as the information that i've learned here that i'm going to share with my colleagues as well as the as well as the whole as well as the whole peers that i'm going to impact thank you very much and i can only conclude by saying what AI has always asked us to do to keep the meeting thank you that's it that's a great note to end on sandrine thank you very much i also feel a lot motivated and optimistic given the discussions and also you know we really underlines how high the stakes are right now um i enjoyed seeing many of your faces they're nodding along and participating in terms of questions and comments in the zoom chat so please hold on to those we're going to be going into our breakout sessions and we'll come back here right now though i want to introduce kay furth butterfield she is head of AI ML at the world economic forum uh who had a huge hand in bringing all of this together and i could also see her nodding along too okay let me hand it over to you before we get to the breakouts thank you very much and thank you to all of our panelists and all of you for joining us this is for me the most consequential of the um of the projects that we're actually doing and um that's because it's tried to say but children really are our future and getting it right for children is just so important i started my life as a human rights lawyer concentrating on the rights of children so this is so near and dear to my heart and my passion in AI is that we will solve the foundational problems that we have at the moment and um really be able to use AI for good so that's really where generation AI comes in to solve those foundational problems that you've heard some people talking about on the panel so that we can really use AI to benefit youth um the generation AI project is of course a multi stakeholder project um working with pwc seth berguson actually runs this project and he's our fellow from pwc but we've always used worked with unicef right from the start lego del technologies berkeley mit and many others so um please check out the project in the chat through using the link that is just come into the chat um we have about 120 people working on the project and we would love to have more so if this is your passion please reach out reach out to sef or me so as you can see the goal is developing corporate governance guidelines for responsibly using AI to educate and empower youth and children but also protect them from the those risks and we've got these three strategic values educate how can we educate and benefit children and youth to meet sdg for quality education again we need to put the foundation in first empower how can we empower and inspire diverse users and the next generation of leaders to use AI and of course that protecting we have to put in the protections first so how can we protect and promote children's rights and we have these three fundamental initiatives under those first the ai youth council we want this to be a truly global council and we are just putting it together sandrine is one of our youth council members from uh ruanda but we also have a youth council member from turkey and at the moment we're looking for more we want to get about 30 young people to begin with and we want one person from each country so if you know a youth in the 13 to 21 age bracket who's interested in AI and passionate about digital let us know um the other um big initiative is the smart toy awards this is in partnership with uh will i am and to begin with we are going to look at the under sevens you heard ron talk about you need different levels of use of ai and children the under sevens are a particularly a particularly challenged group because frankly they don't have the development of their brains to be able to know what's real and what's fake and um the possibilities around the problems around security for that group of children how you continue getting creative play when they're interacting with toys that come already preloaded with backstories you and i made them up how we think about their privacy and many other issues for example use of facial recognition in those toys and you might say well that's a rather third first world um first world problem and how are we thinking about this well what we say is if we can build the foundations for proper use of ai with children looking at these smart toys then we can make sure that we have built the right foundations to use ai for education for everybody which is really what most of us are here and um as a main goal for our work and then of course we have a thought leadership with the smart toy awards and we contributed for example to the UNESCO UNICEF um paper that uh virginia was talking about when we think about the smart toy awards we will launch the awards formally in january and we will be giving the prizes with Will as head of our judges um panel in um in april and so please look out for that project it is truly foundational and important um so moving to the next slide we are going to go into our breakout discussions they're going to be about 20 minutes in length we will be having a facilitator and a speaker in most of those groups but we have so many people here today thank you very much that um some of the groups will also be hosted by members of the forum um so i will be facilitating um the discussion in my group please turn on your cameras so that you can have a truly interactive experience and keep your remarks brief because we might be fairly large numbers in our groups and we really want to hear from all of you so the question that we're going to ask is how can we collaborate and leverage ai to educate and empower children and youth around the world and i would probably add and how do we mitigate those risks that we have to work on first