Recap of our Side Events at the India AI Impact Summit 2026

The Paris Peace Forum was present in New Delhi at the India AI Impact Summit, with two side events highlighting the challenges of artificial intelligence and child protection.

A high-level Franco-Indian session on AI and children

On the sidelines of the Summit, our Director of Policy Initiatives Adrien Abecassis took part in a high-level Franco-Indian session bringing together major figures from both countries: Minister Anne Le Hénanff, French Ambassador for AI Clara Chappaz, Indian Deputy Secretary for e-Governance Amit Shukla, Director of ENS-PSL Frédéric Worms, and Gaurav Aggarwal (iSPIRT).

This discussion marks a turning point for iRAISE, our initiative that we jointly launched with Everyone.AI one year ago in Paris, at the AI Action Summit.

Among the session's highlights:

• Minister Anne Le Hénanff launched an international call for scientific contributions to inform France's work within the G7 on AI and child protection.
• Teenagers are not passive users. They maintain a social relationship with AI, whether or not this is intentional on the part of developers. Emotional signals and persuasion mechanisms profoundly influence the way young people interpret and rely on these systems.
• Principles are not enough. The real work lies in mapping, evaluating, and auditing observable interaction patterns that affect minors.
• The G7 call is an opportunity to build common, concrete standards governing interactions between AI and minors.

Our side event: designing AI in service of future generations

The Paris Peace Forum and everyone.AI also co-organised a dedicated side event, bringing together scientists, technology players, policymakers, and civil society representatives around a central question: how do we design AI that truly serves the next generation?

Stuart Russell opened the discussion by setting the framework: we share a collective responsibility to design an AI world that is fundamentally favourable to children. The speakers — Adrien Abecassis, Anne-Sophie Seret, Mathilde Cerioli, Dr. Sampurna Behura, Vithika Yadav, Meir Walters, and Lakshmi Pratury — were clear: protecting children in the age of AI is not only about blocking immediate risks, it is about building for their development.

A strong message came from India: child safety and child development cannot be separated. Both must have a seat at the same table — in research, in product design, and in public policy.

It is precisely to help establish a solid framework and adjust model behaviours that iRAISE has published its first report, "Adolescents and Anthropomorphic AI", led by Mathilde Cerioli. It starts from a simple observation: adolescents will develop a social relationship with AI, whether or not developers plan for it. The real lever lies in model behaviour — in the signals that keep a young person oriented toward real relationships and critical thinking, or conversely, that encourage dependency on the system.

Towards the French G7 Presidency 2026

The Paris Peace Forum remains fully committed to making iRAISE the reference space where every piece of the puzzle connects — from the laboratory to the boardroom, all the way to policymakers, with partners across the world. We will be at the G7 to continue advancing this initiative and deepening the parallel work of the Child Priority Framework, a concrete effort to place children's wellbeing at the heart of global investment and governance.