Arsenal’s AI partner ABBYY worked with Arsenal in the Community to run sessions for 120 local children to promote safety online on Safer Internet Day last month.
The event at Emirates Stadium featured sessions for primary and secondary school students aged ten to 13. With a focus on online safety and wellbeing, the goal was to engage students in interactive AI while highlighting career opportunities in the technology sector.
There were three rotating workshops led by Arsenal and ABBYY, the intelligent automation partner of Arsenal Women. The workshops included:
*A stadium tour led by Arsenal IT team. The children went behind the scenes and explored the different uses of technology at key points on the tour, including dressing room screens and advertising boards.
*AITC Scamming Awareness: A session on identifying scams and phishing, featuring an interactive “Scam or Safe” activity where participants analyse and sort real-world email examples.
*AI Training – How to Train an AI Model: An immersive, hands-on experience training a model using Vantage, ABBYY’s Intelligent document processing platform.
Ulf Persson, chief executive of ABBYY, said, “Generative AI technologies will change how we operate and live, so it is paramount to understand the risks associated with it, like deepfakes and sophisticated scams. It rests on all of us in the AI industry to help giving users – not least younger ones for whom this is what they are growing up with – the tools to use AI and navigate the internet safely.”
“We’re delighted to have had the opportunity to make a real difference to the children who attended our sessions. It’s been a privilege to work with Arsenal in the Community to create a more responsible digital future for the next generation.”
Freddie Hudson, Head of Arsenal in the Community, said, “Online safety is one of many challenges young people currently face as they navigate their way through their young lives. Together with ABBYY, we’re able to raise awareness and get children talking and learning about the issue. Pupils engaged incredibly well, speaking about their own experiences, and the schools valued the unique approach we developed to address such an important topic.
“The AI session was equally impressive. ABBYY’s expertise and insight coupled with our reach and ability to engage with the community was a great example of a shared commitment, and a continuation on the strong community work we’ve delivered for 40 years.”
ABBYY is the official Intelligent Automation Partner of Arsenal Women. For more information click here.
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