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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Main Authors: Leaver, Tama, Srdarov, Suzanne
Format: Report
Published: ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child 2025
Online Access:https://digitalchild.org.au/artificialintelligence/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97892
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description 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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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-978922025-07-10T08:00:54Z Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges Leaver, Tama Srdarov, Suzanne 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. 2025 Report http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97892 10.5204/rep.eprints.257452 https://digitalchild.org.au/artificialintelligence/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child fulltext
spellingShingle Leaver, Tama
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Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges
title Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges
title_full Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges
title_fullStr Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges
title_full_unstemmed Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges
title_short Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges
title_sort children and generative artificial intelligence (genai) in australia: the big challenges
url https://digitalchild.org.au/artificialintelligence/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97892