Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges
GenAI tools are great at reproducing what probabilistically comes next, but these models produce all kinds of errors because there is no understanding, no intelligence. It is vital that these tools are used carefully and critically. This report highlights nine of the most urgent challenges and is...
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ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child
2025
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| Online Access: | https://digitalchild.org.au/artificialintelligence/ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97892 |
| Summary: | GenAI tools are great at reproducing what probabilistically comes next, but these models produce all kinds of errors because there is no understanding, no intelligence. It is vital that these tools are used carefully and critically.
This report highlights nine of the most urgent challenges and issues in terms of everyday use of GenAI tools, especially when children might be using these systems. All of these are in urgent need of greater research, including hearing more from children and young people about how they use, and how they wish to (or don’t wish to) use these tools in the future. Educators, policy makers, NGOs, parents and anyone thinking about the uses of GenAI tools would be well served keeping these issues in mind, too. |
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