AI is increasing threats to child safety. Here’s how parents can respond

It used to be that parents could more easily safeguard their children against technology’s tangible threats, such as sexual abuse and exploitation, by saying things like:

“Hey, if you get exposed to nudes, (or) if for some reason you take a nude, don’t share it. Here are the five reasons why. Here’s how people will exploit those nudes,” said Chris Yadon, managing director of Saprea , a nonprofit that provides sexual abuse healing and prevention resources, at the Organized Intelligence conference on Nov 4.

But perpetrators no longer need children to share these explicit images in order to exploit them. Perpetrators can now use AI tools to modify images of fully-clothed children and use them to “sextort” — or “sexually extort” — children.

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