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Joanna Shields at the 2025 Fortune AI Brainstorm

As the UK government rolls out its ambitious AI Opportunities Action Plan, businesses are eager to understand how they can capitalise on this historic initiative.

Artificial intelligence is transforming our world, but for millions of children, it is also opening new pathways to exploitation and abuse.

Baroness Joanna Shields' keynote at the WeProtect Global Alliance Abu Dhabi Summit highlights the devastating scale of online child sexual exploitation, emphasizing the role of AI in exacerbating these threats. She underscores the failures of algorithms prioritizing engagement over safety and calls for transformative action from tech companies, governments, and law enforcement. Shields advocates for AI solutions to detect abuse proactively, urging platforms to prioritize humanity and safety. The speech concludes with a call to collective action to protect vulnerable children worldwide.

WeProtect Global Alliance today unveiled a compelling short film, Protect Us, exposing the harrowing ways generative AI applications and chatbots are being weaponised to exploit children online.

Baroness Joanna Shields delivers a powerful talk on the urgent need to address online exploitation and the dangers children face in the digital world.

Baroness Joanna Shields' keynote at the WeProtect Global Alliance Abu Dhabi Summit highlights the devastating scale of online child sexual exploitation, emphasizing the role of AI in exacerbating these threats. She underscores the failures of algorithms prioritizing engagement over safety and calls for transformative action from tech companies, governments, and law enforcement. Shields advocates for AI solutions to detect abuse proactively, urging platforms to prioritize humanity and safety. The speech concludes with a call to collective action to protect vulnerable children worldwide.

In this clip from the Balderton Podcast, Joanna Shields discusses the evolving relationship between government and businesses in ensuring safety and accountability in the digital age.

Joanna Shields, the world’s first Internet Safety and Security Minister, discusses her role in countering online extremism during 2015.

This clip is part of a longer interview discussing the critical issues surrounding AI in ad tech and its effects on privacy, surveillance, and enterprise risk - Apr 2024

This clip is part of a longer discussion on the rapid evolution of AI and its impact on society. In this segment, we explore the importance of aligning AI development with ethical principles and human values - Aug 2023

In this BBC interview, Baroness Joanna Shields, CEO of Benevolent AI and former UK Minister for Internet Safety and Security, discusses the positive impact of AI in science and medicine at the UN-sponsored AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva - Jul 2023

In an incredibly short timeframe, the progress made by the Center for AI globally in driving forward the development and deployment of responsible AI has been phenomenal.

Joanna Shields shares her reflection on Responsible AI and innovation following her recent involvement at the GPAI Summit and Paris Peace Forum

Your Excellencies Ladies and Gentlemen,I would like to thank the Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton for the opportunity to join you today to participate in the formal opening of the Australian Center to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE). Whilst these proceedings were delayed due to the COVID 19 pandemic...

Legislation cannot catch every use case. Governments must be nimble and agile as use cases emerge that require exceptions to protect the public good, and in this case, our children from harm.

National Forum for the Protection of Children and Adolescents Victims of SexualExploitation in the Context of Internet Pornography

Hi Everyone. I am Joanna Shields, CEO of BenevolentAI. I am delighted to have this opportunity once again to speak at ‘We are Tech Woman’. I want to thank Vanessa and the marvellous team behind this event. Every year you shine a spotlight on aspiring women who are creating...

What we experienced in the first five months of 2020 has been unprecedented in our lifetimes. As the pandemic raged through our communities and lockdowns were enforced, digital connectivity uplifted us, keeping our friends and families close, our businesses operating and, thankfully, our...

If we are going to get the next ten years right, we need leaders with empathy, who care about their fellow citizens, and are prepared to work to end injustice and create opportunities for all”. It was an honour to kick off the Global Leadership stage of CogX 2020 today alongside such an inspiring panel, to discuss how we must each do our part to get the next ten years right to ensure we have a society we can all be proud of.