State Attorney General Anne Lopez has joined a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general calling on Congress to study how artificial intelligence can and is being used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material and to propose legislation to protect from such abuse.
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In a letter to lawmakers, the coalition warned that AI tools can, for example, create so-called deepfakes of children by studying real photographs of abused children and generating new images showing those children in sexual positions
Hawaii Internet Crimes Against Children commander Ed Arias said AI will cause “an explosion” in the production of CSAM that may be indistinguishable from real images and which will further burden law-enforcement resources
The coalition is asking Congress to establish a commission to study how AI can be used to exploit children and to “act to deter and address child exploitation, such as by expanding existing restrictions on CSAM to explicitly cover AI-generated CSAM”
Governments and private industry have been scrambling to understand, anticipate and plan for the potential nefarious uses of AI and deepfake technology
“The rise of artificial intelligence and deepfake poses a grave threat to the safety and well-being of our children,” Lopez said. “Attorneys general from around the nation are united in our call to Congress to act to give law enforcement the tools it needs to combat child predators in the age of AI.”
