Situating Youth Agency in Designing AI & Art Policies

Safinah Ali; Ayat Abodayeh; Vishesh Kumar; Cynthia Breazeal

AAAI 2026technical0 citations

Situating Youth Agency in Designing AI & Art Policies

Safinah Ali, Ayat Abodayeh, Vishesh Kumar, Cynthia Breazeal

Abstract

AI technologies have long-term societal implications that impact youth, prompting a need for critical AI literacy for students. While current K-12 AI curricula have increasingly integrated societal impact and ethics concepts in AI curricula, there is a need to center youth’s agency in decision-making around AI systems that impact them. In this work, we engaged 94 middle and high school art students in a Policy Design learning activity as a part of an Art and AI learning workshop. Students worked in groups to create policies around AI

BibTeX

@inproceedings{aaai2026_situatingyouthag,
  title = {Situating Youth Agency in Designing AI & Art Policies},
  author = {Safinah Ali and Ayat Abodayeh and Vishesh Kumar and Cynthia Breazeal},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
  year = {2026}
}