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🌿 "Listen to children!"
+ an AI tool that Ammis with dietary restrictions will 🫶 and a Galentine's gift
Ruqaiya
February 17, 2025
I hope you got the one thing I know all Ammis want: a nap.
But if not, you’ll find a lil’ something I made for you toward the end of the letter!
Also, to all the new Ammis and friends from our recent Galentine’s Day workshop — welcome to the ammi.ai garden!
If you missed our last workshop, and you’re ready to level up with AI Literacy, our next workshop, AI Literacy for Busy Moms, will be on March 8th, International Women’s Day!
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An AI Ingredient Checker
Today’s apple: pom
Exactly a year ago, I shared a ChatGPT tip from a fellow Ammi, Zainab from Dallas: using ChatGPT to help scan ingredient lists in case you or a loved one has dietary restrictions.
You could say she manifested today’s AI app(le), which happens to have apple-themed branding! It’s an ingredient scanner called pom, which stands for 🍎 peace of mind 🍎.
Some cool features:
Quick real-time ingredient label scan.
You can set custom flags for ingredients you’d like to avoid.
Understand the latest research on each ingredient. We 💗 simple explanations here at ammi.ai.
⚠️ Ammis! While AI tools can be helpful, always verify any health, safety, or education advice with trusted experts. Use AI as a helper, not a replacement for your invaluable Ammi intelligence and judgment!
Planting the Seed
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The Children's Manifesto for the Future of AI
On February 4th, the Alan Turing Institute partnered with Queen Mary University of London to host the first-ever Children’s AI Summit.
Around 150 children came together to explore how AI impacts them and put together a Manifesto for technology and political leaders set to convene for the Paris AI Action Summit the following week. Their first demand in The Children’s Manifesto for the Future of AI is "Listen to children!”
I HIGHLY recommend reading through the manifesto in its entirety, which includes handwritten postcards from the children. In the meantime, here’s a summary!
📣 Demands for World Leaders
The manifesto starts by highlighting a stark quote from 16-year-old Ethan:
You’ll write the laws, but we’ll bear the cost. Hear us. Engage with us. And remember: AI may be artificial, but the consequences of your choices are all too real.
Then, the children directly address world leaders with some of the following asks:
Listen to children!
Think about children’s experiences and needs around the world and put things in place to make sure AI is safe for children, including restrictions on social media.
Create more education about AI, so people understand better what it is and how it works, and also how we can use it well.
Create guidance and advice for people to know how to use AI safely and appropriately, specifically for young people and their caregivers.
Make sure that all children have the opportunity to benefit from AI.
There are three key areas where children want to see AI used, but they also have concerns: 1. Education, 2. Health, Safety, and Wellbeing, and 3. The Environment.
📚️ On Education
I believe that AI has the ability to bring education to millions of children breaking cycles of poverty and transforming entire societies. In wartorn regions, countries like Ukraine or Gaza, in times of conflict families often cannot afford to leave and education becomes a casualty of war. For children in these regions AI offers a lifeline, with minimal infrastructure, AI tools can ensure that learning doesn’t stop even when schools are closed or destroyed. Education in these scenarios isn’t just about learning, it’s about hope, sustainability and the promise of a brighter future
Source: The Children’s Manifesto for the Future of AI
They see great potential in AI to make education more accessible and personalized, especially for children with learning difficulties, disabilities, or those in war-torn regions.
However, they worry about over-reliance on AI and stress that it should assist, not replace, human teachers.
They want better education about AI, including how to use it responsibly and identify misinformation.
❤️🩹 On Health, Safety, and Wellbeing
My ideas for the AI summit is you could help the children by making the AI talk and communicate with them when they are feeling down [...] They could help children with autism, if they are depressed, if they have ADHD or if they’re dyslexic.
Source: The Children’s Manifesto for the Future of AI
Children envision AI helping with healthcare, particularly in supporting mental health and assisting those with special needs.
They express concerns about online safety and privacy.
They worry about AI's addictive potential, especially in social media, and its impact on sleep and mental health.
🌳 On Environmental Impact
Governments can fund and incentivise green tech innovations, such as renewable energy-powered AI infrastructure, carbon capture technologies, and smart agriculture systems. They can also enforce regulations that require AI systems to be energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
Source: The Children’s Manifesto for the Future of AI
They express concern about AI's environmental footprint, including energy and water consumption.
They want AI powered by clean energy sources.
They see potential for AI to help combat climate change and protect endangered species.
⚠️ Their Biggest Concerns
Privacy and data protection
Unequal access to AI technology creating wider societal gaps
The spread of misinformation and fake content
Job security, including impacts on their parents' employment
Bias and discrimination in AI systems
Lack of transparency in how AI makes decisions affecting their lives
❔ What happened with the Manifesto
Organizers of the Children AI Summit brought the Manifesto to the Paris AI Action Summit to share with world leaders.
The good: The launch of the Beneficial AI for Children Coalition with the goals of safeguarding children’s development in the AI age. It’s unclear if this initiative is directly related to the Manifesto.
The not-so-good: World leaders and technologists - the same people the children were pleading to hear their demands - largely shunning AI safety and excessive regulations in excitement to pursue AI opportunities.
Every country attending the Paris summit signed a declaration ensuring artificial intelligence AI is “safe, secure, and trustworthy”—except for the U.S. and the U.K.
"The biggest risk could be missing out," Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, said last Monday. "Every generation worries that the new technology will change the lives of the next generation for the worse. Yet, it's almost always the opposite."
Key word: almost.
🌿 Ammi’s Takeaways
I keep rereading this Manifesto because it is so stunning. Here are 3 key takeaways:
I was overjoyed and relieved to see this initiative carried out successfully, especially by such reputable institutions (Alan Turing is the Father of AI!). A Children’s AI Summit and Manifesto are essential: our actions (or inaction) around AI will impact our children the most. I would love to see more of these summits happen anywhere there are children…aka everywhere!
I am unsurprised and deeply sad that children feel ignored. It is heartbreaking that they have to advocate for AI literacy for both themselves and their caregivers, and plea for inclusion in the AI conversation. And even so, technology and world leaders continue to ignore their pleas.
Children are incredibly knowledgeable on the benefits and risks of AI. They’ve beautifully articulated innovative, compassionate, and balanced viewpoints and ideas that I haven’t seen in any other forum or among prominent thought leaders. We often say and do things around children, thinking it will fly over their heads. Children are hyperaware of the magnanimous impact of AI on the rest of their lives, and that our actions today are shaping their tomorrow. We will surely be held to account if that impact is negative.
I always say that if we can get all mothers in the AI conversation, I am hopeful for a healthy future with AI. I will amend that to say that if we can include children in the AI conversation and amplify their voices as loud as possible, I am confident we can achieve a healthy future with AI.
Fruitful Harvest
Fresh AI fruits from the community garden.
Here are a couple of fresh picks for you!
🍒 A Galentine generator from Ammi to you! Enjoy!
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🍉 This artist works side-by-side with robots to create art.
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Ruqaiya
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