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Policy & Advocacy

Turning Constitutional Principles Into Public Policy.

Our policy interests

Areas where we contribute to public policy

  • Universal digital rights
  • Personhood rights
  • AI accountability
  • Children's digital protection
  • Privacy and data sovereignty
  • Automated decision-making
  • Responsible delegation to AI systems
  • Institutional obligations and accountability
  • Human rights in computational environments

Featured policy-development initiative

Children's Rights in an Intelligent Internet

Children are growing up alongside AI companions, recommendation systems, digital identities and autonomous systems. These technologies can support learning and wellbeing — and can also profile, influence and act on children in ways they cannot understand or contest.

Constitutional computing could help create verifiable safeguards: limits that systems must respect when interacting with a child, and records that allow guardians and authorities to check that they did.

This is a policy-development initiative. It is not an enacted legal framework or a completed regulatory partnership.

  1. 01

    Age-appropriate AI protections

    Design obligations that reflect children's developmental stage and vulnerability.

  2. 02

    Children's privacy and identity sovereignty

    Limiting profiling and preserving a child's ability to shape their own identity over time.

  3. 03

    Safe AI companionship and representation

    Standards for AI systems that converse with, advise or represent children.

  4. 04

    Legitimate parental and institutional responsibilities

    Clarifying who may act for a child, within which limits, and how that authority is checked.

  5. 05

    Rights-preserving age assurance

    Approaches to age assurance that protect children without building surveillance into the Internet.

  6. 06

    Accountability, contestability and redress

    Clear routes for children and guardians to challenge decisions and obtain remedies.

Policymakers, child protection specialists and researchers are invited to contribute to this initiative.

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Legislation & policy context

Law already shaping children's experience of AI

New York State law · Enacted legislation

Senate Bill S9051B — Prohibition on Unsafe AI Companion Features for Minors

Signed 28 October 2026 · Effective 1 January 2027 · New York State Legislature

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This is New York law addressing unsafe AI companion features for minors. It is not a Foundation initiative.

Laws like this raise practical questions the Foundation is studying: how age can be assured without surveillance, how limits on AI behaviour can be expressed in systems, and how compliance can be evidenced. The Foundation is developing a proposal on constitutional approaches to such compliance; it is work in progress, not a published submission or a regulatory partnership.

Policymakers and researchers working on these questions are welcome to engage with us.

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Policy that people can enter

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