The answer is to design with you, not merely for you.
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100 The answer is to design with you, not merely for you. UNICEF's December 2025 Guidance on AI and Children says children's rights still receive insufficient attention in AI policy, law, governance, and development. It calls for safety, privacy, transparency, accountability, inclusion, AI literacy, and meaningful child participation across the AI life cycle. [38] Adults have no right to use protection as an excuse to erase your agency. Adults have no right to use agency as an excuse to abandon protection. You deserve both. You deserve food before a lecture on resilience. A safe home before a productivity app. A school with teachers, libraries, art, science, music, play, disability access, clean air, and time to think. Health care that does not wait for emergency. A planet treated as a home rather than a quarterly report. A childhood not permanently recorded for strangers. A private thought that does not become a prediction sold against you. A human explanation when a system says no. A right to correct the file. A right to leave the platform. A right to play without being optimized. A right to be bored without a machine rushing to fill the silence. A right to be angry at adults. A right to know when adult wars have already been placed on your shoulders. Adults have failed whenever a child is told that survival in a conflict zone is normal. More than one in six children globally were living in areas affected by conflict in the latest UNICEF estimates. New military technologies, including AI, robotics, biometrics, and cyber operations, can deepen the danger by striking infrastructure, exposing personal data, and accelerating decisions adults still pretend are under control. [31] Our solidarity cannot begin with the lie that children are outside the battlespace. They are already inside it as civilians, refugees, recruits, targets, students, users, data sources, and future personnel. Adults do not get to export all risk downward.