1、Supported byREPORTChildren and Generative Artificial Intelligence(GenAI)in Australia:The Big ChallengesAUTHORSTama Leaver(Curtin University)Suzanne Srdarov(Curtin University)SUGGESTED CITATIONLeaver,T.,Srdarov,S.(2025)Children and Generative AI(GenAI)in Australia:The Big Challenges.Australian Resear

2、ch Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child,Queensland University of Technology.DOIhttp:/doi.org/10.5204/rep.eprints.257452KEYWORDSChildren and media;Children and internet;Digital childhoods;Generative Artificial Intelligence;Platform Governance;Privacy.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis document was su

3、pported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child(grant#CE200100022).The Centre and authors acknowledge the First Nations owners of the lands on which we gather and pay our respects to the Elders,lores,customs,and creation spirits of this country.Report Graphic De

4、sign:Christer de SilvaCOPYRIGHTCopyright 2025 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.This is an open-access report distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License(CC BY 4.0).ContentsIntroduction 1Agentic Language 3Bias 5Copyri

5、ght and Ownership 7Environmental Cost 9Indigenous Data Sovereignty 11Interactive AI Agents and AI Companions 13Privacy 15Ubiquitous AI 17AI Literacies or Critical AI Literacies?19References 211IntroductionFigure 1.An image generated by DALL-E3 in May 2024 responding to the prompt“a really good calcu

6、lator with a sleek design.”2Digital Child|Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence(GenAI)in Australia:The Big ChallengesIntroductionFor most people,generative artificial intelligence(GenAI)appeared from nowhere at the very end of 2022 with the free-to-use public release of ChatGPT from OpenAI