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Join Our Workshop on AI Chatbots! We’re working with NSPCC and 5Rights to organise a workshop with children and young people. At the workshop we want to hear from you about: - How AI chatbots are being used by children and young people - If you have any worries of concerns about these chatbots - What changes you would like to see to make chatbots safer for children The workshop will take place online on Zoom, on Tuesday 3rd November from 5:30pm to 7:00pm GMT. The workshop is for children and young people aged 11 to 19. You will discuss this topic with other children and young people who are a similar age to you. To take part, please get in touch with the NSPCC at: YouthCSOSolutions@nspcc.org.uk, or visit flippgen.com to find out more!

"What happens when an AI companion stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like a relationship?" One of the many questions our Digital Rebel Allegra Cuomo was answering when she represented FlippGen at the Vatican for  Generation Remix’s Youth Panel at a Vatican summit focused on safeguarding humans in an AI age. Allegra has recently written a blog post for FlippGen highlighting some of the key things we have learnt from the young people we work with about championing young people's wellbeing in an AI era, including 🔵 FlippGen's take on the different kinds of AI products that exist 🔵 Breaking down how some of the key design decisions of AI companions make young people feel and act 🔵 What safeguards young people have told FlippGen they need to thrive in the age of AI companions Read the whole piece on our blog https://lnkd.in/eGWjVM9w

Young people are ready and waiting to work with the government to call time on the “decades of indifference” that shaped our lives growing up online, and rebuild online safer spaces where our generation and the next can thrive online. That was FlippGen’s message for Ian Murray MP in his role as Minister of State for Creative Industries, Media and Online Safety at Labour Party Conference. As part of IWF’s panel on Delivering on Labour’s Commitment to Keeping Children Safe Online, our Non Exec Director Catherine Reader joined Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) CEO Kerry Smith, Daily Mirror Political Correspondent Sophie Huskisson, the Minister, and Jess Phillips MP to chat about: 🔴 the stark reality of where we are now. FlippGen's Gen Z led team have watched in horror as the harms we have faced years ago online are becoming ever present and normalised, whilst government action has not caught up. Catherine discussed how she’s heard directly from young people we work with that the misogyny and sexualisation of young people she experienced in LGBT+ spaces online years ago has become commonplace across the internet. 🔴 how we got here. Panellists shared how they wished they could turn back the clock and have secured more interventionist government action 10 years ago, to stop emerging harm we faced as children escalating to where it is today. We discussed how the consultation on children’s safety online was the first chance for many of young people to finally tell the government about what we have experienced online for years. We also chatted about how lessons are yet to be learnt from the Online Safety Act, how long it took to pass resulted in harms we experienced not being acted on, and that continued slow pace for government intervention to fix holes that have emerged as the Act has been implemented has meant children are not safer online today. 🔴 where we need to go next. Where we found harmony as a panel was in agreeing that more government intervention is needed beyond removing access to platforms. We discussed creating platforms that finally work for young people and we’ve seen this sentiment reflected in the Secretary of State’s comments today. FlippGen, Molly Rose Foundation and Breck Foundation’s polling shows young people want to be a part of defining what’s next, young people want to still be able to connect and learn online, and they want to be safe when doing that. Key themes emerged around building on the foundations government has in place to act on this - growing the initial shoots of engagement we saw in the consultation earlier this year, acting on the powers in the Crime and Policing Act to regulate AI and strengthening the Online Safety Act. FlippGen are ready to move on from the years of indifference that shaped our lives online. We are ready to work with the Secretary of State, Minister, and wider civil society to create online spaces with young people, for this generation and the next to thrive.

Young people know what is needed for politicians to make an internet where teens thrive online, it's time for government to listen to us. The message is loud and clear from our polling of 12-15 year olds with Molly Rose Foundation and Breck Foundation: six times as many young people want to see the platforms we rely upon for learning, socialising and expressing ourselves to be made safe for us, rather than outright banned. The voices of 12-15 year olds matter, many will likely be eligible to vote at the next election, and are telling us in this polling that access to news, interests and people is at stake with the government's upcoming decisions on social media restrictions. We are calling on the government to directly work with and listen to young people to design what the next wave of online safety legislation looks like, so that it finally works for us. Want to know how we can translate the online world young people are telling us they need in to an internet that actually works for us? We'll be on Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)'s panel at Labour Party Conference on Tuesday at 9:30AM, catch us there

We’re coming to The Labour Party party conference, bringing our insights on what Gen Alpha and Gen Z need to see from policymakers to thrive online 🤳 Catch our non exec director Catherine Reader at this Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) panel next Tuesday in conversation with Jess Phillips MP, Kerry Smith, Ian Murray MP and Sophie Huskisson about what young people really make of the “social media ban” and whether it will deliver on Labour’s commitment to keep children safe online.

Looking for your next summer read? 📚☀️ Our team has recommended some of their favorite books about the digital world to inspire your reading list. Have a book to recommend? Let us know what you’d add to the list! 👇

Today is #InternationalYouthDay. Young people are talked about constantly, in Parliament, in the media, in boardrooms, in policy documents. What's rarer is young people being listened to. Because young people aren't just users of technology. We're navigating it every day. We know what works. We know what doesn't. And we have ideas about what needs to change. That matters, because decisions about the digital world shouldn't be made for young people without being made with young people. At FlippGen, we believe young people should have a seat at the table. Not as a token voice. Not as a box to tick. But as experts in our own experience. Young people aren't the leaders of tomorrow. We're trying to shape the digital world today. Happy International Youth Day.