Noēsis Provides Recommendations to the G20 | Designing AI to Help Kids Flourish

Timothy Lomas, Research Scientist, Harvard Human Flourishing Program, Colin Mayer, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and Dennis Snower, Founder of the Global Solutions Initiative and Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford, and Ron Ivey, CEO of Noēsis Collaborative.

Noēsis CEO and Founder, Ron Ivey, recently spoke on AI and human flourishing at the Global Solutions Initiative Summit, an advisory body to the G20. He presented a policy brief, co-authored with Jonathan Teubner, Nathanael Fast, and Ravi Iyer, that combined research from Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program with the design code expertise of the USC Marshall School of Business Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making.

Summary of the brief for the G20:

“Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation promises many benefits, but its rapid development and adoption raises concerns about the well-being of children. AI chatbots, powered by large language models (LLMs), are rapidly growing in popularity, with platforms such as ChatGPT and Character.AI attracting hundreds of millions of users. While they offer benefits, such as productivity and mental health support, they also pose risks, including social isolation, exposure to child abuse, and suicide. Youth mental health is declining globally, and suicide is now one of the three leading causes of death among adolescents aged between ten and nineteen (Carvalho, n.d.). The global cost of mental health conditions is projected to exceed US$6 trillion by 2030.

To promote human flourishing, G20 nations should create a global task force on AI and child well-being to lead the development and adoption of smart standards for AI chatbots and youth well-being. AI companies should prove the benefits for youth before widespread deployment.”

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