The National Crime Agency's 'National Strategic Assessment 2025 - Child Sexual Abuse' has a keen focus on the implications of AI on the ways that strategies used by perpetrators might develop.
The report states "Developments in technology continue to drive and enable more complex online child sexual abuse. This includes the manipulation of legal generative artificial intelligence tools to create child sexual abuse material which is illegal, shown with recent substantial convictions.
The US National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is expected to have seen a significant rise in reports of child sexual abuse material or other sexually exploitative content related to generative artificial intelligence over the course of 2024.
The use of generative artificial intelligence systems without safeguards to prevent the generation of indecent images of children will undermine law enforcement efforts to identify and safeguard victims."
The full report can be read here.
A useful InfoGraphic provided as part of the report summarizes the AI technology in play and some of the implications of this technology on keeeping children safe.
Greater care will be needed by parents to attempt to understand what their children are doing online. We are promoting ways to observe their children's online behviour and step in when risks arise
