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Speakers at U.N. Action Day call for child-centered AI safeguards and warn against surveillance-driven misinformation
Summary
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Baroness Kidron urged the U.N. and member states to prioritize children's rights in digital policy and to curb surveillance-for-profit business models and biased AI systems.
Two speakers at the U.N. Action Day emphasized the need for child-centered safeguards in digital policy and spotlighted harms from surveillance-driven business models and online disinformation.
Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and co-founder of the Filipino news outlet Rappler, said the current AI and platform ecosystem is shaped by a "toxic surveillance model" and warned that misinformation and manipulation erode facts and trust. "Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust," Ressa…
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