Technology is changing. Child protection must keep up.
Artificial intelligence is creating new challenges for child safety.
Pennsylvania must make sure our laws, reporting systems, education, and prevention efforts keep pace.
It is also creating new ways for children to be exploited, manipulated, sexualized, threatened, and victimized. Our children should not have to wait for the law to catch up.
Pennsylvania has an opportunity to act now.
Strengthen Pennsylvania’s child-protection reporting system by ensuring suspected CSAM and artificially generated CSAM can be appropriately reported and evaluated.
Technology is evolving rapidly. Pennsylvania must continually evaluate whether existing laws adequately address emerging forms of digital exploitation.
Parents, children, educators, mandated reporters, and youth-serving professionals need practical information about emerging AI-enabled risks.
Those responsible for exploiting children through technology must be held accountable, while children and survivors must remain at the center of our response.
Child safety and constitutional protections are not opposing goals. Pennsylvania should pursue laws that are effective, narrowly tailored, and capable of standing up to legal scrutiny.
AI can make it easier to manipulate images, create convincing fabricated content, and facilitate new forms of online exploitation. The technology is moving quickly. Child-protection systems must be prepared to recognize, report, investigate, and respond to emerging threats.
This is not about fearing technology. It is about making sure technology never becomes a tool that makes the sexual exploitation of children easier, more scalable, or harder to address.
Children’s safety must not become the price of technological progress.
We urge Pennsylvania lawmakers to:
Children’s safety must not become the price of technological progress.
We don’t have to fear technology to recognize its risks.
We don’t have to ban AI to demand accountability.
And we don’t have to wait for more children to be harmed before we act.
We can educate. We can prevent. We can advocate.
And we can build protections that keep children at the center.
Radiant Shepherd is a Pennsylvania 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to child trafficking awareness, education, prevention, and advocacy.
This campaign is nonpartisan. Our focus is protecting children, strengthening prevention and reporting, supporting victims and families, and encouraging effective and constitutionally sound public policy.
Radiant Shepherd DOES NOT advocate for a ban on artificial intelligence.
We advocate for responsible child-protection policies that keep pace with emerging technology.
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