Major tech firms at Paris AI summit unveil open-source tool to protect children

Big tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Mozilla unveiled, at start of the Paris AI summit this week, a new open-source tool intended to protect children from online exploitive content, marking a major private-sector initiative at a time when governments including the U.S. appear to be pulling back on setting regulatory AI safeguards.

The Robust Open Online Safety Tools, or ROOST, was developed at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs to bring “together the expertise, resources, and...