Call for submissions: Illustrating the generative AI product safety standards – Department of Education
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Call for submissions: Illustrating the generative AI product safety standards
Wednesday 16 September 2026
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The project will bring the DfE’s Generative AI Product Safety Standards to life through practical, visual examples of imagined educational AI products and interactions.
The resource aims to help children, parents, educators and the public understand what the standards could mean in practice and support wider engagement with the Government’s forthcoming consultation on AI safety.
AI in Education of Oxford University Principal Investigator Dr Sara Ratner said: “This presents a wonderful opportunity to engage young people, their teachers and caregivers in active policy work. It puts their voices and lived experiences front and centre in determining what safe and responsible AI use may look like in our schools should we wish to use it.”
We are seeking visual examples that explore a specific area of the Generative AI Product Safety Standards through an imagined product concept or user interaction.
This is a speculative design exercise, not a review of existing products. We are looking for illustrative examples of what compliant, non-compliant and edge-case AI products or interactions might look like in practice. Submissions should present hypothetical products, features or interactions rather than evaluations of real-world products or services.
Choose a specific educational use case, product feature or interaction and create one or more of the following:
- Compliant: an example that demonstrates alignment with a Product Safety Standard.
- Non-compliant: an example that demonstrates a failure to meet a Product Safety Standard.
- Edge case: an example that <a href="https://bitcomme.com/bytedance-ai-drug-discovery-unit-raises-290m-at-1-5b/” title=”ByteDance AI drug discovery unit raises $290M at $1.5B”>raises genuine questions about how a Product Safety Standard should be interpreted or applied.
We are particularly interested in perspectives from children and young people, as well as educators, parents, practitioners, researchers, designers and developers.
Submissions should focus on a specific educational use case, product feature or interaction rather than an entire platform. Visuals might include mock-ups, screenshots, wireframes, storyboards or prototypes. AI-generated visuals are welcome, but contributors are encouraged to develop their own concepts and design decisions.
The call for submissions will open on 14 September 2026 and close on 16 October 2026.
The resulting online resource is expected to launch in November, alongside the public consultation on the UK Generative AI Product Safety Standards.
For questions about the call, contact aieou@education.ox.ac.uk.
