Baroness Kidron speaks regularly around the globe on digital policy. Selected examples below.
ITV News’ Talking Politics
In a special episode of ITV News' Talking Politics, Baroness Kidron spoke about her parliamentary battle defending creatives in the face of copyright breaches by AI companies. She warned about the dangers of the UK Government's wider AI policy and kowtowing to the US administration and Silicon Valley.
Privacy in the Age of AI and Surveillance – ISF podcast
Baroness Kidron joined the Information Security Forum's podcast series to discuss privacy in the modern age. She emphasised that the itnernet has changed, making privacy essential; explained how technology is changing childhood; and provided her take on the UK's AI strategy.
Tech, Trust, and Teens – British Council Podcast
In an interview for the Our World, Connected podcast series with Christine Wilson, Director of the Research and Insight Team at the British Council, Baroness Kidron described her work advocating for children's rights in the online environment and the harms children face online.
Iain Dale All Talk
Baroness Kidron appeared on Iain Dale's All Talk podcast. She discussed her career's work, including her time as a filmmaker and her transition to advocating for children's rights and safety online, and called for 'tech sovereignty' to avoid serving the 'masters of Silicon Valley'.
Tech Tantrums: When tech meets humanity | LSE Lecture
AI is poised to supercharge its impact on almost every aspect of economic, public and personal life. Tech leaders in Silicon Valley believe that AI poses an existential threat to humanity even as they enter an arms race to be ’the ruler of the world”. This year 50% of the world’s population go to the polls, without a single party offering a vision of how they will ride, contain or regulate the wave of change that AI will bring.
In this talk, Beeban Kidron, best known for her global impact on tech regulation to benefit children, will set out why issues around AI must not be left to tech experts and unaccountable corporations.
Generative AI is “new frontier” in battle against abuse | Keynote Speech at Pier24 Event
Speaking at PIER24, the conference of Anglia Ruskin University’s Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER), Baroness Beeban Kidron revealed that she has been working with law enforcement to create a new criminal offence for producing, possessing, distributing or advertising files or models intended to create CSAM.
Baroness Kidron’s keynote speech was part of PIER24’s two-day programme bringing together professionals from charities, law enforcement, agencies and legal organisations across the world who are all working to make the internet safer for children online.
US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy and Baroness Kidron on youth mental health | Lord Speaker Lecture
US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy and Baroness Kidron discuss the need to address the growing youth mental health crisis, the risk that social media use poses, and how social connection can improve our overall well-being.
The Lord Speaker’s Lecture series invites members of the House of Lords and external experts to deliver lectures and answer questions on their specialist subjects or topics of interest.
The lectures enables members of both Houses and staff to hear expert opinion, fostering discussion and the exchange of information.
Meet the British Lords Taking on Big Tech
The Mummafesto Podcast: Baroness Beeban Kidron
In the Mummafesto, Labour and Cooperative MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy will speak to campaigners, academics and changemakers - people whose work is making our country a better place to be in. They'll explore how parenting has influenced their work and their mission - the motivations, the fears, the tears and the chaos as well as tiredness, and what they would like to put in their 'Mummafesto' for the General Election.
To kick off the first ever episode of the Mummafesto, Stella is delighted to welcome Baroness Beeban Kidron.
Putting Children at the Centre of the AI Debate
Keynote at Queen Mary University’s event ‘AI at a Turning Point: How Can We Create Equitable AI Governance Futures?’ in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI and Big Innovation Centre.
Putting Children at the Centre of the Digital World
Keynote at the ‘Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress in Washington DC organised by the US non-profit, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development.
How a British baroness is shaping America’s tech laws for kids
We Cannot Let AI Hinder the Fight Against Child Abuse
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Let bereaved parents access their children’s data
Op ed co-authored with Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid MP.