Generative AI and children’s digital futures: New research challenges

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Generative AI and children’s digital futures: New research challenges

From WALL·E (Stanton, 2008) to The Wild Robot (Sanders, 2024), children’s popular cultureis filled with sympathetic, lovable, heroic artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic characterswho make passionate and ethical choices about their own existence and help others. TheAIs of contemporary cinema and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Leaver, Tama, Srdarov, Suzanne
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2025
Subjects:	Generative AI Children and Media
Online Access:	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE200100022 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/96847

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