C3AI 3nd Workshop

How can we design AI systems that children can trust, question, challenge, and use critically?

And how can we evaluate whether AI systems genuinely support children’s agency, rights, wellbeing, and diverse ways of interacting?

The third edition of the C3AI workshop: Responsible AI for Children explores how children can establish appropriate trust, critically engage with AI, and retain meaningful agency when interacting with increasingly capable AI systems.

The workshop asks how Responsible AI principles can become visible in practice: through uncertainty communication, privacy protection, human oversight, inclusion, children’s rights, and design choices that support rather than replace children’s judgement. We will also consider the roles of parents, caregivers, educators, policymakers, and other adults who shape children’s AI experiences.

Through an invited talk by Randi Williams, lightning talks, scenario analysis, and group discussions, participants will develop candidate principles, constructs, indicators, and methods for evaluating Responsible AI in child–AI interaction. The workshop will pay particular attention to diverse children’s experiences, including neurodivergent perspectives, as a way to challenge assumptions about typical users and standard evaluation methods.