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Riana Pfefferkorn

Policy fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

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“We're seeing prosecutions work just fine. What I do think is worthy of closer scrutiny is the impact of AI on victim identification”
Lawfare Daily: AI, Child Safety, and the LawThe Lawfare Podcast, October 22, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Answering whether AI has made prosecutions impossible, as Justice Thomas once predicted; the speaker discusses the paper and the Anderegg case.
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“Everybody else who even tried to bring a First Amendment challenge did not succeed, and that's a total of eight cases out of more than seventy”
Lawfare Daily: AI, Child Safety, and the LawThe Lawfare Podcast, October 22, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Describing the study's sample of federal prosecutions and how rarely First Amendment challenges were raised or succeeded.
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“that is the biggest challenge potentially for law enforcement is not prosecuting somebody because at least in the US my paper shows that our laws are adequate, at least at the federal level, it's the victim identification component”
Lawfare Daily: AI, Child Safety, and the LawThe Lawfare Podcast, October 22, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Saying the biggest challenge for law enforcement is not prosecuting offenders but telling whether an image shows a real child in need of rescue.
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  1. PodcastThe Lawfare PodcastSpeaks

    Lawfare Daily: AI, Child Safety, and the Law

    In a 48-minute Lawfare episode, Renée DiResta interviews Stanford's Riana Pfefferkorn and Edinburgh's Cyndie Demeocq about research on 71 US federal prosecutions involving AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Pfefferkorn argues existing federal law works; both guests say identifying real victims is the harder problem.