Today, we’re introducing a policy blueprint that outlines a practical path forward for strengthening U.S. child protection frameworks in the age of AI. This blueprint reflects and incorporates feedback from several leading organizations and experts across the child safety ecosystem, including NCMEC, the Attorney General Alliance and its AI Task Force co-chairs—North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown—and Thorn to ensure it reflects their priorities and can facilitate more effective collaboration to prevent harm to children.

The blueprint focuses on three key priorities: modernizing laws to address AI-generated and altered CSAM, improving provider reporting and coordination to support more effective investigations, and building safety-by-design measures directly into AI systems to prevent and detect misuse.

No single intervention can address this challenge alone. This framework brings together legal, operational, and technical approaches to better identify risks, accelerate responses, and support accountability, while ensuring that enforcement authorities remain strong as technology evolves.

Together, these steps enable the industry to address child safety earlier and more effectively. By interrupting exploitation attempts sooner, improving the quality of signals sent to law enforcement, and strengthening accountability across the ecosystem, this framework aims to prevent harm before it happens and help ensure faster protection for children when risks emerge.