Position: Preventing AI-Generated CSAM Necessitates New Approaches to AI Safety

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05407v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:22:53 GMT
• Title: Position: Preventing AI-Generated CSAM Necessitates New Approaches to AI Safety
• Abstract summary: We argue that protecting children from AI-facilitated sexual abuse requires new approaches to AI safety.<n>Existing safety techniques assume data accessibility, transparency, and evaluation practices are incompatible with the ethical and legal constraints surrounding child sexual abuse material.
• Score: 17.12585775312932
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems present profound new risks to child safety. AI is increasingly being misused to create AI-generated child sexual abuse material, facilitate child sexual exploitation, and reduce barriers to harm. In this paper, we argue that protecting children from AI-facilitated sexual abuse requires new approaches to AI safety. Existing safety techniques assume data accessibility, transparency, and evaluation practices that are incompatible with the ethical and legal constraints surrounding child sexual abuse material. We examine how these constraints create new technical challenges, such as limitations on dataset auditing, red teaming, and fine-tuning prevention. In turn, we outline *15 open problems* in online child sexual exploitation and abuse across the AI development lifecycle, from dataset curation and model design to deployment and long-term maintenance. We propose targeted recommendations for researchers, developers, and policymakers to bridge the gap between theoretical AI safety and the realities of child protection. Our work aims to reframe preventing AI-facilitated child sexual abuse as a central, safety-critical dimension for AI research, motivating work that translates responsible AI principles into concrete safeguards against the exploitation of children.

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