John Zoltner – AI Child Safety & Tech for Social Impact

Founder of AIChildSafety.org, AI4SocialImpact, and the Childhood & AI Lab Fellowship

AIChildSafety.org · AI4SocialImpact · Childhood & AI Lab Research Fellowship

For more than twenty-five years, John Zoltner has been an early advocate for using emerging technologies to meet social, educational, and economic development challenges in communities, governments, and nonprofits. John is the Founder and CEO of AIChildSafety.org, a nonprofit ensuring AI amplifies rather than diminishes children's capacity to think, learn, and create, and of AI4SocialImpact.org, a consulting group that builds capacity and provides technical support for AI-driven social change. He has led work ranging from early efforts to eliminate the digital divide, to the use of mobile technology for development, and now, the promise and peril of AI for children. A serial social entrepreneur, John built the Safe Digital Childhood initiative at Save the Children, founded the TechLab at FHI 360, and launched the Childhood and AI Lab Fellowship, which supports 66 scholars in 23 countries studying AI's effects on childhood. John was awarded the World Leaders in Data and AI Award in the AI for Good Impact category in 2025.