Online grooming offences have reached a record high, with police data revealing a four-year-old boy as being among the victims.
The NSPCC described the figures, which show an almost doubling of such crimes over the past eight years, as "deeply alarming".
The UK government will allow tech firms and child safety charities to proactively test artificial intelligence tools to make sure they cannot create child sexual abuse imagery.
An amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill announced on Wednesday would enable "authorised testers" to assess models for their ability to generate illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM) prior to their release.
Trade unions and online safety experts have urged MPs to investigate TikTok’s plans to make hundreds of jobs for UK-based content moderators redundant.
The video app company is planning 439 redundancies in its trust and safety team in London, leading to warnings that the jobs losses will have implications for online safety.
'As Children’s Commissioner, I have consistently said that no child should be exposed to pornography online. That is not an ideal – it is the bare minimum we should expect from an online world which is now where children spend so much of their lives.
We do not tolerate pornographic magazines on school buses or graphic sexual material on children’s television. Why children’s exposure to it online has ever been tolerated is beyond understanding.'
The Alan Turing Institute's Children and AI and AI for Public Services teams explored the perspectives of children, parents, carers and teachers on generative AI technologies.
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