The IEEE AI & Children working group — part of the IEEE Standards Association's Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems — develops engineering standards aimed at protecting minors in AI-mediated experiences. Output includes draft standards on age-appropriate explainability, ethical content generation, and prohibitions on dependency-engineered design.
These standards are referenced in regulatory frameworks across the EU, UK, and US, and are intended to give product teams concrete, testable requirements rather than abstract principles.