Thank You for Helping Our Work Travel Further
How SAIFCA guidance is being used in research, policy and safeguarding practice around the world
When we publish guidance at the Safe AI for Children Alliance, our aim is simple - to produce work that genuinely helps people understand and respond to the ways AI is affecting children.
Over recent months, we have been very grateful to discover that some of that work has travelled much further than we realised.
SAIFCA guidance and research has been cited or drawn upon by national regulators and child-protection bodies, researchers, policy organisations, educators and safeguarding professionals around the world. Our work has helped inform official guidance for parents, academic research into child safety and generative AI, international AI-policy discussions, and practical safeguarding policies.
We wanted to take a moment to thank the organisations and individuals who have found our work useful, and to share some of the places it has travelled.
All work mentioned is linked at the bottom of this article.
Helping to inform public guidance and policy
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, the country’s national online-safety regulator, cited SAIFCA’s The Rise of Emotional AI in official guidance for parents and carers on new AI-related risks to children and young people. The guidance discusses AI attachment, emotional dependence and possible effects on children’s social and emotional development.
In Poland, the State Commission responsible for preventing the sexual exploitation of minors cited our comprehensive guide, AI Risks to Children, in a substantial guide for parents and carers on protecting children from sexual exploitation online. The publication was launched at the Polish Senate and includes sections on AI companions, so-called ‘nudifying’ tools and AI-generated sexual imagery.
SAIFCA’s input also contributed to The Future Society’s global civil-society consultation connected to France’s 2025 AI Action Summit, where SAIFCA was a named organisation whose submissions helped inform the report’s section on Public Interest AI.
Contributing to research
The Brookings Institution selected SAIFCA’s comprehensive guide as an example of family-facing AI-safety information in its report A New Direction for Students in an AI World: Prosper, Prepare, Protect.
In a separate research paper, Child Safety in Generative AI: An Expert-Guided and Incident-Grounded Evaluation Framework, researchers selected guidance from SAIFCA, the American Psychological Association and Common Sense Media to help construct an initial taxonomy of AI risks to children. Of the five organisational guidelines they reviewed, two were SAIFCA publications.
Other researchers have cited SAIFCA’s specialist work on griefbots and children, and our initial briefing on Sora 2 and AI-generated video. These examples are especially meaningful because they show different parts of our work becoming useful in emerging fields of research, rather than focusing on only a single publication.
Putting guidance into practice
We have also been encouraged to see SAIFCA guidance moving into practical safeguarding systems.
The British School of Gran Canaria’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy directs parents and carers to SAIFCA for further AI-safety resources and practical advice. In the UK, Baby College’s photography and digital-media policy refers to guidance from Save the Children and SAIFCA when explaining why organisations should reconsider the identifiable images of children they make publicly available.
Children and Screens, a specialist institute focused on digital media and child development, has also directed readers to SAIFCA in its expert resources on AI social companions and young people.
What this means to us
Seeing our work being used - to inform research, strengthen safeguarding practice, help parents understand emerging risks, and contribute to decisions about how children should be protected as AI develops - means a lot.
Several of these examples were discoveries we happened upon some time later. We do not always know when SAIFCA’s work has been cited, referenced or used.
So we would also like to make a small request - If you have used SAIFCA research or guidance in your own work, whether in research, policy, education, safeguarding, journalism or something else, please let us know, we would genuinely love to hear about it.
And to everyone who has read, shared, cited, challenged, built upon or put our work into practice - thank you.
The purpose of this work has always been to help create a safer future for children. Seeing it travel beyond us, and become useful in the work of others, is one of the most meaningful signs that it is doing what we hoped it would.
References and further reading
Public guidance and policy
- Australian eSafety Commissioner — How AI Is Influencing New Online Risks for Children and Young People
- Polish State Commission — Opowiem Ci o moim świecie
- The Future Society — AI Action Summit Consultation Report
Research
- Brookings Institution — A New Direction for Students in an AI World: Prosper, Prepare, Protect
- Child Safety in Generative AI: An Expert-Guided and Incident-Grounded Evaluation Framework
- Synthetic Companionship: Deepfake Parental Substitutes in AI-Driven Children’s Literature and Their Impact on Child-Computer Interaction
- Children, Ethics, and Generative Video: Educational Reflections on Sora 2
Safeguarding and professional practice
- British School of Gran Canaria — Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy
- Baby College — Photography, Video and Digital Media Policy
- Children and Screens — AI Social Companions and Youth: What Parents Need to Know