Conceptual framework proposes a five-article declaration of rights for children facing artificial intelligence, highlighting the need to protect attention, development, and unmediated reality.
A five-article declaration of children's rights for the age of intelligent machines, grounded in Dr. Maria Montessori's 1917 White Cross proposal. The document sets the White Cross beside the present moment, states five short articles concerning attention, the developing mind, unmediated reality, profiling, and the child's right to the present day, and situates them alongside existing legal and design frameworks, including General Comment No. 25 and the 5Rights Framework, as a developmental complement rather than a rival. It closes with next steps and is offered as a starting articulation, to be tested, contested, and revised, above all with children themselves.
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