Children’s Safety and Well-Being in the Age of AI Best Practices and Incentives

2026

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This World Economic Forum white paper examines children’s safety and well-being in the age of artificial intelligence, providing best practices and incentives across the AI life cycle to balance protection with empowerment, agency, and equitable access.

• The primary objective is child well-being rather than a completely risk-free environment, emphasizing that protection and empowerment must advance together.
• The report establishes seven key practices across the AI life cycle, including design for safety and age appropriateness, enabling beneficial use, preventing harmful interactions, protecting privacy, strengthening critical thinking, establishing accountability, and advancing inclusion.
• Children, caregivers, and educators should support safe use but must not be held responsible for risks that organizations can reasonably prevent.
• A comprehensive portfolio of incentives—such as enforceable baselines, visible safety performance, procurement requirements, and shared implementation capacity—is necessary to make responsible AI practices the rational choice for organizations.

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