The UK is stepping up efforts to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse, part of the Plan for Change.
New plans will focus on disrupting networks that profit from these crimes, including those using AI and other emerging technologies.
Several unique routes have been identified which offenders are using to make money such as financial extortion, live streaming, selling access to content, and hacking accounts. The UK is working with the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to develop new tools to stop them.
This could include working with partners to harness new technology to identify AI generated material and minimising law enforcement exposure to child sexual abuse material by using AI to categorise child sexual imagery through our world-leading child abuse image d