The rate of sexual exploitation of children increased in 2020, thanks to the exploitation of techniques artificial intelligence To subjugate and blackmail children, as indicated by the report of the United Nations Regional Institute for Crime Research and Criminal Justice, and prepared by the report published by the World Children’s Rescue Alliance at its position directly on the dangers of artificial intelligence on children.
The dangers of artificial intelligence cannot be limited to children in one type of risk, as they begin at the obscene and generated content using artificial intelligence to blackmail children, and even impersonating characters and luring to commit harassment crimes and others.
Therefore, raising awareness of the risks of artificial intelligence and the mechanisms of protecting children from it has become a pivotal part of the mechanisms of protecting children, and this awareness is not limited to parents only, but also extends to educate children with these risks and warnings that must reach them.
Below is a group of the most important steps and mechanisms through which children can protect from the dangers of artificial intelligence on the Internet:
1- Building an effective dialogue with children
The Global Child Rescue Alliance report indicates that the most important mechanism in protecting children from the dangers of artificial intelligence in particular and the dangers of the Internet in general is to build an effective and open dialogue with children continuously.
The child must trust his parents, and be ready to transfer any bad experience that he is going through online or feels fear of it, because the aggressors via the Internet need the child to find himself afraid, troubled and unable to make the appropriate decision.
For this, they mainly depend on the tools of obstetric intelligence to deliver the child to this stage and make him unable to make the appropriate decision and are afraid to go to his relatives.
The process of building effective dialogue – according to what the center published – includes awareness of parents about the dangers of artificial intelligence and its great ability to fabricate things that seem real, so that they do not believe everything they want from their children.
2- Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword
Despite the great risks of artificial intelligence and extensive threats to the security and safety of children, it is a two -border tool that can provide a great benefit to children and make them aware of the dangers surrounding them from other artificial intelligence tools.
Some studies encourage children to use artificial intelligence tools, but under the control of parents in order to avoid artificial intelligence hallucinations that may produce offensive content that is at risk.
This applies to parents as well, as they must master the use of artificial intelligence techniques and understand its capabilities greatly so that they can evaluate the situation appropriately and benefit from its tools in case of need.
3- Building a network of secret words
The Washington Post published a report on the protection of the family and children from the dangers of impersonating the characters through the techniques of the IQ, written by Shira Ovidi.
Ovidi mentioned a mechanism followed by Dan Woods, a security expert and former officer in order to protect himself and his children from the dangers of artificial intelligence and impersonating the characters, and it depends mainly on building a network of secret words and codes that indicate different situations.
By using this network of words, you can discover the fraud immediately even if his voice is identical to the voice of another person you know.
While this method appears to be old, but it has proven successful in many cases, including an attempt to impersonate prominent government figures in America, including Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, according to the New York Times report.
4- Using artificial intelligence tools to counter fraud through it
This idea looks greatly consumed, but fire can be faced with fire and rely on artificial intelligence techniques to discover fraud and fake content, thanks to the presence of many artificial intelligence tools that work on it.
Usually, these tools analyze photos, videos and audio clips through very advanced algorithms in order to eventually reach a percentage that expresses the possibility that the content is born with artificial intelligence.
These tools work with all types of content, starting from texts, written content to videos and audio content, and their results differ based on the quality of the content provided, but they are usually not wrong.
It is always advised to use the tools paid in these cases in order to be sure of the sincerity and accuracy of the content contained to users, even if it is made with artificial intelligence or really real.
5- Pay attention to the details always
It cannot be said that artificial intelligence is a danger in itself, but its bad use mechanisms make it dangerous, so the child or his relatives must not be afraid of artificial intelligence itself.
And because any fraud that depends on artificial intelligence cannot take place without persuading the victim, attention to the details and focusing on it is the key to discovering artificial intelligence tricks and fraud calls.
These details may differ from one case to another, but in general it is advised that the future refuse the conversation and then call directly to the party that made the conversation but from his phone, this makes him reach the real person and not the fake person using artificial intelligence.
6- Joint efforts
Shira Ovidi says in the “Washington Post” report that the risks of great artificial intelligence make part of the deterrence mechanisms fall on governments, organizing bodies and companies developed for these technologies.
Ovidi explains that the development of these technologies significantly led to unprecedented realism in the content resulting from artificial intelligence, noting that companies must prohibit access to such technologies to the public, and that all kinds of content resulting from them.
However, with the absence of these legislations at the present time, the task is the responsibility of the parents in order to organize the matter and protect their children as much as possible.