AI action plans should be slowed until safeguards for children in place – NSPCC

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The Government should slow down its artificial intelligence action plans until a statutory duty of care for children is in place around the technology, a leading charity has said.

The NSPCC said generative AI is already being used to create sexual abuse images of children, and urged the Government to consider adopting specific safeguards into legislation to regulate AI.