Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is quickly reshaping the digital experiences of young people. It offers real opportunities for creativity, learning, and connection. It also introduces risks and harms we are only beginning to understand: the spread of misinformation, the creation of explicit or defamatory content, and the facilitation of cyberbullying, hate speech, and identity-based attacks. AI’s impact on youth safety and well-being is serious and urgent.
Addressing these challenges takes work across regulation, platform accountability, education, and technology design. This session equips adults with the knowledge, practical strategies, and tools they need to prevent and respond to AI-related risks and harms among the young people they serve.
Key issues discussed: AI fundamentals, positive uses, AI risks and harms, updated research findings, stakeholder implementations to support youth
Delivered in an urgent yet hopeful tone with the use of flash polling, videos, and case studies, this presentation will help youth-serving adults:
- Recognize the positive ways that youth are occupying an AI-driven digital landscape
- Understand the most common and emerging types of AI-related risks and harms affecting young people
- Identify the features of AI platforms and tools that can facilitate misuse, abuse, and exploitation
- Appreciate the challenges and limitations of current detection and moderation technologies
- Learn about recent research findings, including national prevalence data among youth and case studies drawn from real experiences
- Develop effective communication strategies to engage youth in open, nonjudgmental dialogue about their use and experiences with AI
- Explore actionable prevention and response strategies including policy recommendations, platform controls, and educational initiatives
- Learn how to empower youth to use AI ethically and responsibly, fostering resilience, empathy, literacy, and digital citizenship
(60 minutes)
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