A criminologist is calling for more education at a younger age for children about the use of things like AI – and the potential criminal consequences of using it the wrong way.
Adrienne Peters, the director of criminology in the Department of Sociology at MUN, was responding to news that a 17-year-old boy has been charged with using AI to alter people’s images in a sexually explicit way, and posting them to social media.
Dr. Adrienne Peter (Photo via Twitter)
Peters says the responsibility to educate their children about such activities cannot lie solely with parents and caregivers. She says it has to start with the school system, and should begin, in age-appropriate ways, in primary and elementary school.
Peters says that’s important because social media can expose children to all sorts of behaviors, including violence and sexual ideas.
She says the school system needs to adjust its social and health courses to let children know about the potential consequences of AI.
