Child-Centred AI-Mediated Collaborative Agency by Design

As synthetic media (i.e., generative artificial intelligence) applications improve, people are using them for more tasks. There is a fine line between people gaining efficiency by using applications as tools to do tasks and ceding control to automated systems by having them do tasks for them. This can be especially difficult to navigate for children and young people, who are not only developing their own decision making abilities, but are also usually constrained (often for good reasons, but limiting nevertheless) by other stakeholders, such as parents, teachers, and policymakers. We ask: how could synthetic media and other AI systems and applications be designed to support children and young people in making informed decisions and enacting them meaningfully together with other stakeholders, i.e., their collaborative agency (co-agency)? Researchers, designers and practitioners are invited to submit ideas and posters about conceptions, design for, and assessment of co-agency between children and other stakeholders. Participants will collaborate on mapping the emerging area of research on co-agency and identifying shared research agendas.