Lawfare Daily: AI, Child Safety, and the Law

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For today’s episode, Lawfare ’s Renée DiResta sits down with Riana Pfefferkorn, a policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and Cyndie Demeocq, a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics, to discuss their new research examining how existing federal criminal law applies to AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and what 71 federal prosecutions reveal about the legal issues created by generative AI. Together, they unpack the Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in United States v. Anderegg ; the First Amendment distinctions between real, AI-manipulated, and wholly synthetic imagery; and why the authors argue…