Is it right to use AI to identify children at risk of harm?

Machine learning is being used to help protect children, but it raises ethical questionsTechnology has advanced enormously in the 30 years since the introduction of the first Children Act, which shaped the UK’s system of child safeguarding. Today a computer-generated analysis – “machine learning” that produces predictive analytics – can help social workers assess the probability of a child coming on to the at-risk register. It can also help show how they might preve