Live webinar air date: May 15, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Eastern time
Date
CE credits
2
Exam items
15
Series
AI, Technology, and Growing Minds
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Description
This webinar explores how advances in companion-like and conversational artificial intelligence are reshaping children and adolescents’ digital experiences, and how to ensure safety, sensitivity and developmental alignment. The presenter examines real examples of AI-mediated risks, from emotional misattunement to over-reliance and dependency, and explores the difference between safe versus risky design and use of chatbots by young people. Participants will engage with practical frameworks and explore ways to translate child-development science into safer AI use across home, school and clinical settings.
Learning objectives
- Identify key AI-related risks and benefits for children’s wellbeing using contemporary clinical and developmental evidence.
- Apply frameworks to evaluate the safety and developmental appropriateness of child-AI interactions and AI products designed for, or used by, under-18s.
- Explore how to integrate safety dashboards and decision frameworks to guide ethical, developmentally aligned interventions.
Presenter
Nomisha Chandran Kurian, PhD
An assistant professor in education studies. She researches how digital technologies, particularly AI, can best support children’s safety and wellbeing. She has advised the UK Government Open Innovation Team, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and other organizations on child safety and AI. Her work has been covered by CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, and has received the University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor's Award for Social Impact and the University of Cambridge Applied Research Award.
