· Train and guide

Children, parents, legal guardians, or other caregivers should be actively guided to recognize and understand AI services properly. Multi channel and multi form training approaches can be applied to guide children, parents, legal guardians, or other caregivers to gain a reasonable knowledge of AI, and to avoid the possible blind faith, obsession, or misinterpretation of AI.
Principle: Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development.

Related Principles

· Fairness
The development of AI should treat and serve all children fairly and should not cause discrimination or harm to any child. The research and application of AI shall not make any distinction as to the child's, his or her parent's, legal guardians', or other caregivers' race, color, gender, language, religion, political or other opinions, nationality, or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status, as far as the fundamental rights of the child are concerned.

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development. in Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

· Privacy protection
The development of AI should protect children's privacy in a much stricter manner. The collection of information on children should follow the principle of "legal, proper and necessary", ensure their guardians' informed consent, and avoid illegal collection and abuse of children's information. AI systems should ensure that children, parents, legal guardians, or other caregivers have the rights to consent, refuse, erase data, revoke authorizations, etc.

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development. in Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

· Expression of will
The development of AI should help protect children's right to freely express their opinions and wishes. Through appropriate channels, AI developers should seriously listen to, value, and consider the opinions of children. Children should be allowed to express their opinions and wishes freely when interacting with AI. Parents, legal guardians, or other caregivers can help children interact with AI while taking their wishes into account.

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development. in Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

· Be responsible
The development of AI should uphold a responsible attitude towards the next generations, fully consider and try to reduce and avoid the potential ethical, legal, and social impacts and risks that AI might bring to children. The research, design, deployment, and use of AI should invite children and their parents, legal guardians, and other caregivers to participate in the discussion, actively respond to the attention and concerns from all sectors of society, and establish a timely and effective error correction mechanism.

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development. in Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

· Ensure informed
Children and their parents, legal guardians, or other caregivers should be informed in a clear and understandable manner of the non human interaction objects or non real contents involving AI technology so as to ensure that they will not be misled or subject to the negative effects that may result from such AI applications.

Published by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with enterprises that focus on AI development. in Artificial Intelligence for Children: Beijing Principles, Sep 14, 2020

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