Resource Library
Explore a curated collection of research reports, design guidelines, policy briefs, and articles related to AI and children.
Testimony to House Committee for Hearing on Screentime in Schools
Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Understanding the impacts of generative AI use on children. Work Package 1: Surveys
The Alan Turing Institute
Understanding the Impacts of Generative AI Use on Children: WP2 School-based Engagements
The Alan Turing Institute
A Statement on AI Regulation
Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Comments to NITRD NCO on AI Research, Development and Child Well-Being
Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Social AI Companions - AI Risk Assessment
Common Sense Media
The State of Kids and Families in America 2025
Common Sense Media
Children & AI Design Code
5Rights Foundation
The 2025 Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Zero to Eight
Common Sense Media
New School? Promises and Risks of AI in the Classroom
Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Research Brief: Teens, Trust, and Technology in the Age of AI
Common Sense Media
Responsible AI and Children: Towards a Rights-Based Approach to AI Governance
Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Evolving Technologies Horizon Scan
WeProtect Global Alliance & Thorn
High-quality early literacy and STEM learning through the co-design of Generative AI
The GIANT Room & Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Unpacking Grind Culture in American Teens: Pressure, Burnout, and the Role of Social Media
Common Sense Media; Center for Digital Thriving at Harvard; Indiana University
Generative AI: a new weapon being used in child sexual abuse
Fondation pour l'Enfance
The Dawn of the AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Adoption of Generative AI at Home and School
Common Sense Media
Generative AI in K-12 Education: Challenges and Opportunities
Common Sense Media
Feedback on the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Exploratory consultation on privacy and age assurance
Riley McNair & Sara M. Grimes
Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI
Florence G'sell
How should children's rights be integrated into AI governance?
UNESCO
Path to Personalization: A Systematic Review of GenAI in Engineering Education
HAL Open Science
Impact of regulation on children’s digital lives
Digital Futures for Children Centre
The Future of Child Development in the AI Era
everyone.AI; iRAISE Alliance
Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2024
Ofcom
Enfants et Écrans, à la recherche du temps perdu
French Government Expert Commission
Responsible AI and Children: Insights, Implications, and Best Practices
CIFAR
How Teens and Parents Approach Screen Time
Pew Research Center
Artificial Intelligence Act
European Union
Children's Wellbeing in a Digital World: Index Report 2024
Internet Matters
The potential and limitations of Artificial Intelligence chatbots to improve children’s access to child friendly justice
Terre des hommes
The Unintended Consequences of Artificial Intelligence and Education
Education International
Child Sexual Abuse Material: Model Legislation & Global Review (10th Edition)
ICMEC; The Koons Family Institute on International Law & Policy
Disrupted Childhood: The cost of persuasive design
5Rights Foundation
AI, Children's Rights & Wellbeing: Transnational Frameworks
The Alan Turing Institute & Scottish AI Alliance
Exploring Children's Rights and AI: Stage 1 Report
Scottish Children's Parliament; The Alan Turing Institute; Scottish AI Alliance
Guidance for generative AI in education and research
UNESCO
The Ethics of AI in Education: Practices, Challenges, and Debates
Wayne Holmes and Kaska Porayska-Pomsta (eds.)
Global Threat Assessment 2023
WeProtect Global Alliance
Ethical guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence and data in teaching and learning for educators
European Commission
Approaches to Children’s Data Protection: A comparative international mapping
5Rights Foundation
Shedding light on AI: A framework for algorithmic oversight
5Rights Foundation
Artificial Intelligence and Education: a Critical View Through the Lens of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law
Council of Europe
Model National Response to end child sexual exploitation & abuse online
WeProtect Global Alliance & UNICEF
Policy Guidance on AI for Children (Version 1.0)
UNICEF
But how do they know it’s a child? Age assurance in the digital world
5Rights Foundation
Pathways: How digital design puts children at risk
5Rights Foundation
AI and Education: Guidance for Policy-makers
UNESCO
General comment No. 25 on children's rights in relation to the digital environment
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Adolescent Perspectives on AI Report
UNICEF
To grow up healthy, children need to sit less and play more
World Health Organization (WHO)
European approach to artificial intelligence
European Commission
Policy Guidance on AI for Children (Version 2.0)
UNICEF