About the event
On February 4th, 2025, the Children’s AI Summit will bring together children from across the UK to share their messages for global leaders, policymakers, and AI developers on what the future of AI should look like. Putting children’s voices and children’s experiences centre stage, the Summit will explore how AI impacts children today, and how children want to shape its future.
Hosted by the Children & AI team in The Alan Turing Institute’s Public Policy Programme and Queen Mary University of London, and supported by the LEGO Group and Cattenach.
Please note this event is not open to the general public. This is a closed event, where children will be the main group attending, aside from teachers and chaperones.
We have an event capacity that accounts for around 100 children aged 8-12 and around 100 children aged 13-18 from across the UK. Attendance is limited and therefore we will be working with a variety of organisations to select schools and youth groups from across the UK. We will only be able to support groups from the UK for attendance at the Summit. For schools or youth groups selected, a contribution towards travel and accommodation will be provided.
Why a Children’s AI Summit?
While the last two years have brought unprecedented public interest in AI, with important international and national events in AI regulation and policy, so far children have been largely missing from these discussions. At the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in November 2023, children were only mentioned in hypothetical discussions of future generations. Similarly, at this year’s AI Safety Summit in Seoul children's perspectives were missing again.
Children are the group most impacted by advances in AI. Yet they are the most underrepresented group in decision-making processes relating to AI's design, development, and deployment, as well as the policy-making and regulatory discussions around it. That needs to change.
That’s why ahead of the Paris AI Action Summit in February 2025, we are convening the Children’s AI Summit. Children will gather to share their views on what should be on the agenda in Paris. A key output of the Children’s AI Summit will be calls to action from children on what they want to see on the agenda at the Paris AI Action Summit. These calls to action will be informed by the sessions at the Children’s AI Summit, from panel sessions to performances.
Find out more about the Summit and how to get involved here.
