A new independent institute dedicated to making artificial intelligence safer for children will beformally presented at the Danish Parliament on Tuesday, with former European Commission executive vice-president Margrethe Vestager among those co-hosting the event.
The institute's approach, as explained in a statement before the launch, is "modelled on independent crash-test ratings" for cars.
The idea, ostensibly, is that just as consumers can check whether a vehicle is safe before buying it, parents should be able to do the same for the AI their children use.
Quite what a crash test looks like for a chatbot, the institute does not yet say.
Whether AI products which update continuously, behave differently across contexts and resist the kind of standardised conditions a test track affords, or can be meaningfully "crash-tested" in any comparable sense for children, are all questions the institute has yet to explain.
