Roblox CEO David Baszucki on New AI-Powered Safety Features for Young Players

Enhanced Safety Features on Roblox

• 💡 Roblox is rolling out new safety features to protect its young players, aiming to provide peace of mind for parents.
• 🔑 The platform is introducing age-based communication for all users, including those under 13, teens, and older players.

Trusted Connections and AI Age Estimation

• 🤝 A key new feature is Trusted Connections, allowing users to chat more freely with people they know and trust on the platform.
• 🤖 These trusted connections are established through AI-based age estimation, where users can take a selfie to verify their age in a privacy-compliant manner.
• ⚠️ The system prioritizes a conservative approach, only establishing trusted connections when there is high confidence in age accuracy.

Robust AI for Trust and Safety

• 📈 Roblox has been developing AI for trust and safety for over four years, currently running over 200 AI models.
• 🚫 All images, text, and voice communications on the platform are already processed by Roblox's AI systems.
• 🗣️ The platform actively monitors text and voice for critical harm, and does not allow image sharing.

Additional Features for Teens and Parents

• 📱 For teens, Roblox is offering features related to screen time management, enhanced privacy controls, and more notifications.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parents can also form connections with their teens to monitor spending and trusted connections.
• 🏆 The company believes age estimation and trusted connections will set the gold standard for teen communication.

Moderation at Scale

• 🌐 With over 30 million concurrent users, Roblox handles an enormous volume of interactions.
• 🤖 While sophisticated AI filters process every piece of text and voice communication, human moderation is coupled with AI technology.
• 🚀 Roblox has even open-sourced its voice filter for use by other companies through a consortium, highlighting the advancement of their AI.