Children and AI

Changing Digital Childhoods?

This Palgrave Pivot book examines how AIbased technologies shape childrens everyday lives and imagines possible digital futures.

This Palgrave Pivot book examines how AIbased technologies shape childrens everyday lives and imagines possible digital futures. Drawing on qualitative interviews and a childrights approach, the authors map how new AI tools are used and understood at home, at school, and among peers. They trace shifts in family routines; education, care, and health practices; and peer cultures associated with AI; cutting through the current hype to assess both promises and risks.

Building on prior work on the datafication of childhood and family life, Children and AI: Changing Digital Childhoods? rethinks AIs implications for childrens wellbeing, rights, and life chances amid rapid market diffusion. It highlights potential harms, including widening digital divides and privac