Organizations: Iowa State University 3332 Gerdin, 2167 Union Drive Ames, IA, USA 50011 · University of Delaware 217 Purnell Hall Newark, DE, USA 19716 · City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong · University of Arizona McClelland Hall 430J, 1130 E. Helen St. Tucson, Arizona 85721
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming not only what information systems researchers design, but also how design research is conducted. Yet existing literature offers limited guidance for computational design science (CDS) when AI actively participates in problem formulation, resource construction, design search, evaluation, and knowledge abstraction. We develop AI for Computational Design Science (AI4CDS), a five-phase methodological framework in which AI expands problem and design search while researchers retain responsibility for domain grounding, admissibility, verification, and scientific judgment. Collaboration is governed by graduated trust, reversibility, auditability, and differentiated reproducibility. We instantiate AI4CDS through ChildRiskGuard, an interpretable artifact for detecting short-form videos inappropriate for children, while documenting AI interactions, rejected alternatives, corrections, and audit trails. The case translates audience-dependent safety and explanation faithfulness into three technical challenges and develops an artifact that separates generic from child-specific risk, represents distinct developmental-risk mechanisms, and makes concept-level explanations part of the predictive computation. ChildRiskGuard achieves an F1 score of 0.769, substantially outperforming direct application of a general-purpose content-safety model while remaining competitive with strong benchmarks. The primary contribution is AI4CDS as a responsible framework for AI-enabled CDS; ChildRiskGuard provides process and artifact evidence of how AI-expanded, researcher-governed design can generate and evaluate novel computational design knowledge.
Incidents show that AI safety failures often arise across multiple layers. We present a safety-by-design assurance architecture combining model-level supervision, such as Scientist AI, with system-level controls over scaffolds and harnesses, independent verification, monitoring, and evidence infrastructure, supported by governance for accountability and evidence interoperability.
Qinghua Lu, Yoshua Bengio
CSIRO, Australia · LawZero, Canada · Université de Montréal, Canada +1
The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence-generated content (AIGC) is reshaping video production and circulation, exposing children to an increasing volume of AIGC videos. Unlike traditionally produced videos, AIGC videos often exhibit greater uncertainty in visual details, narrative coherence, and content expression, which may introduce developmentally inappropriate risks for children. However, existing video safety research is largely designed for general violation detection from an adult perspective and remains insufficient for identifying the fine-grained, implicit, and context-dependent risks that children may encounter when viewing AIGC videos. To address this gap, we study child-oriented AIGC video reviewing, making three contributions. First, we construct CAVSR, a benchmark of 605 real-world videos collected from multiple platforms, and develop a hierarchical risk taxonomy comprising 6 top-level categories and 26 fine-grained labels to support systematic evaluation of children's viewing risks. Second, we propose QVRS-E, a knowledge- and experience-augmented video reviewing framework that combines multi-agent collaboration with expert and experiential knowledge to support targeted evidence acquisition and fact-grounded reviewing decisions. Third, extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly enhances the reviewing of child-related risks integrated with vision-language models, and yields more robust review reports.
Lewen Mi, Manyi Li, Yuling Sun +5
Shandong University · Weihai, Shandong, China · Jinan, Shandong, China +3
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems present profound new risks to child safety. AI is increasingly being misused to create AI-generated child sexual abuse material, facilitate child sexual exploitation, and reduce barriers to harm. In this paper, we argue that protecting children from AI-facilitated sexual abuse requires new approaches to AI safety. Existing safety techniques assume data accessibility, transparency, and evaluation practices that are incompatible with the ethical and legal constraints surrounding child sexual abuse material. We examine how these constraints create new technical challenges, such as limitations on dataset auditing, red teaming, and fine-tuning prevention. In turn, we outline 15 open problems in online child sexual exploitation and abuse across the AI development lifecycle, from dataset curation and model design to deployment and long-term maintenance. We propose targeted recommendations for researchers, developers, and policymakers to bridge the gap between theoretical AI safety and the realities of child protection. Our work aims to reframe preventing AI-facilitated child sexual abuse as a central, safety-critical dimension for AI research, motivating work that translates responsible AI principles into concrete safeguards against the exploitation of children.