Risks and Opportunities of AI for Children: A Common Commitment for Safeguarding Children

Prof. Joachim von Braun and Britta Holmberg

Introductory Comments

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness Pope Francis, Vatican City

Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden

Mariana Rozo-Paz, Policy, Research and Project Management Lead at the Datasphere Initiative, #Youth4OurDataFuture Project, Colombia

Leanda Barrington-Leach, Executive Director, 5Rights Foundation

Prof. Maryanne Wolf, PAS Academician, Director, UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice

Mama Fatima Singhateh, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale, Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Children

Imane Lakbachi, Digital Transformations for Health Lab

Wolf Singer, PAS Academician and Ernst Struengmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt, Germany

Prof. Christian Schmahl, Medical Director, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

Dr. Emily Weinstein, Center for Digital Thriving, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Christian Montag, Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Institute of Collaborative Innovation, University of Macau, Macao, China

Prof. Dr. Cecile Aptel, Deputy Director, UNICEF Innocenti Global Office of Research and Foresight

Jacqueline Beauchere MBE, Global Head of Platform Safety, Snap Inc.

Similoluwa Okunowo, Google DeepMind Scholar, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa

Baroness Joanna Shields OBE, Founder, WeProtect Global Alliance; CEO and Founder Precognition

Prof. Andrew Przybylski Professor of Human Behavior and Technology, Oxford Internet

Christoffer Rahm, MD, PhD, Docent Centre for Psychiatry Research Department of Clinical Neuroscience Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services Region Stockholm

Preetika Banerjee, PhD student in Health Economics and Outcomes Research, University of Washington. Research Fellow at the DTH-Lab, digital health interventions on young people's well-being.

Susanne Drakborg, World Childhood Foundation

Daya Reddy, PAS Academician and Professor Emeritus, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Sagar Vishnoi, Parishrut Jassal & Alisha Butala, Future Shift Labs

Prof. Virginia Dignum, Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University (Dept of Computing Science) and director of the AI Policy Lab. Member of United Nations High Level Advisory Body in AI

Ms. Saanika Kodial, Brave Movement

Josiah Kiarie Kimani, AI for Science MSc Student, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa

Ms. Nur Sulyna Abdullah, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Dr. Brian Patrick Green, Director of Technology Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, USA

Hon. Brando Benifei, Member EU Parliament

Dr. Javier Medina Vásquez, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Elaine Zhang, The Datasphere Initiative, Youth4OurDataFuture Project, Duke University Durham, North Carolina, USA

Hon. Neema Lugangira, African Parliamentary Network on Internet Governance and Co-Rapporteur of the IPU Resolution on the "Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law"

Mr. Iain Drennan, WeProtect Global Alliance