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Prosecutors in All 50 States Urge Congress to Strengthen Tools to Fight Ai Child Sexual Abuse Images
"We are engaged in a race against time to protect the children of our country from the dangers of AI," states a letter sent Tuesday to House and Senate leaders from all 50 states and four US states.
The letter, signed by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and signed by attorneys general from Mississippi, North Carolina, and Oregon, calls on Congress to "establish an expert commission to study the means and methods of AI that can be used to exploit children specifically" and to expand existing restrictions on child sexual abuse materials specifically to cover AI-generated images, the AP reports.
"We started thinking, do the child exploitation laws on the books' have the laws kept up with the novelty of this new technology?'" Wilson tells the AP.
He says there are three ways AI could be used to exploit children: by creating "deepfake" images of children that have already been abused, by altering the likeness of a real child from a photograph taken from social media, or by creating a fictitious child's image for the purpose of creating pornography.
"Your child was never assaulted, your child was never exploited, but their likeness is being used as if they were," Wilson says.
"We have a concern that our laws may not address the virtual nature
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