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This position paper argues that AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AIG-CSAM) and AI-facilitated child sexual exploitation require new AI safety approaches. Existing safety techniques assume data access, transparency, and evaluation practices that conflict with legal and ethical restrictions on CSAM. The authors analyze these constraints across data, evaluation, adversarial, and wellness dimensions, examine the roles of AI developers, reporting hotlines, and law enforcement, and outline 15 open problems spanning model development, deployment, and maintenance. They include a proof-of-concept showing diffusion models can fuse separately learned concepts, and offer recommendations for researchers, providers, and policymakers.
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  • • main points

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      Clearly articulates the structural mismatch between standard AI safety methods (which require data access and red teaming) and the legal constraints on CSAM
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      Organizes a comprehensive set of 15 open problems across the full AI development lifecycle
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      Includes an empirical proof-of-concept on concept fusion using proxy concepts, grounding the argument in evidence

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      Identifies that prohibitions on generating or accessing CSAM make standard red teaming and dataset auditing infeasible, requiring alternative evaluation designs
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      Shows that harmful outputs can arise from composing two individually benign concepts, so partial data cleaning may not be sufficient

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    • Provides a research agenda and policy-relevant framing for developers, safety researchers, hotlines, and regulators working on preventing AI-facilitated child sexual abuse, including concrete directions such as self-destructing models, fine-tuning resistance, and provenance mechanisms.

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      Legal and ethical constraints on CSAM access, training, and generation that limit AI safety techniques
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      Data curation, partial data cleaning, and concept fusion risks in generative models
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      Resilience to harmful fine-tuning, deployment safeguards, and long-term model maintenance

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      Reframes child sexual abuse prevention as a central, safety-critical dimension of AI safety research
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      Maps which actors (developers, hotlines, law enforcement) can legally access or generate data, clarifying feasible safety interventions
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      Translates abstract responsible AI principles into a concrete list of open technical and policy problems

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      Understand why standard AI safety techniques such as dataset auditing, red teaming, and fine-tuning evaluation conflict with CSAM legal and ethical constraints
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      Identify the roles and data access permissions of AI developers, reporting hotlines, and law enforcement in AIG-CSAM prevention
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      Recognize open technical problems in data cleaning, concept fusion, and harmful fine-tuning prevention for generative models
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     Original link: https://arxiv.org/html/2607.05407v1

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