At the Paris Peace Forum on 10 November 2026, a Charter of Engagement for Safer AI for Children was presented as part of a Child Summit held on 10 and 11 November 2026. According to the Élysée, the charter has the support of Anthropic, Black Forest Labs, Microsoft and OpenAI. It forms part of the Coalition for Children’s Rights and Protection in the Age of AI, led by France, Spain and Kenya with ten United Nations bodies.

The charter sets out shared principles including safety and privacy by design, age-appropriate design, robust age verification that does not rely only on self-declaration, and a ban on using AI to produce child sexual abuse material. Participating companies that develop or deploy AI systems accessible to minors commit to rigorous testing, before deployment where relevant and at regular intervals afterwards, and to monitoring serious incidents involving children. An independent scientific committee will guide a research network, and companies’ funding gives them no veto over publication of results.

The Paris Peace Forum said AI developers would pledge a total of 8 million euros for research and tools on AI and child development. French President Emmanuel Macron said that “no AI should be placed in the hands of children without first being tested, evaluated, and therefore authorized.”

Note from Evangelii Network Japan: this is our own comment, not part of the source reports. The charter’s stress on testing and independent oversight echoes themes in our paper Catholic AI and Human Dignity.

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