Practical Tools to Protect Your Kids in the Digital Age: Phones, AI Chatbots & Online Safety w/ Founder of Aura Hari Ravichandran

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we take a clear-eyed look at how parents can protect their kids in a fast-moving digital world. After a recent conversation about AI left many listeners worried, I wanted to offer practical guidance—not panic. I’m joined by Hari Ravichandran, founder of a leading digital safety platform Aura, to talk about what kids are actually doing on their devices, how AI chatbots are being used, and why so much of it happens out of parents’ view. We break down simple, transparent ways to keep young people safe online without spying, how to set expectations when introducing a device, and what to watch for as kids navigate phones, apps, and AI. This is a grounded, actionable conversation for any parent trying to stay ahead of a rapidly changing digital landscape.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.8	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:11.9	I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman, and today I'm interviewing the founder and CEO of ORA.
0:19.1	I wanted to do this because we had a recent episode that really freaked people out
0:25.6	talking about fake friends and AI and chat CHIPT. And I don't like scaring people without solutions.
0:33.9	And this is a partner that I feel really great about because they're doing incredible work.
0:39.0	So we're talking to Hari Ravi Sanchon, who started for a for general safety online.
0:49.3	Like I use it personally.
0:51.1	But then he started aura for parents because kids interact in ways that we can't
1:00.8	possibly keep up with. And none of this is meant to be like Big Brother is watching you. This is
1:06.4	very much like an incredibly practical solution to safety precautions for underaged users of phones.
1:15.3	And I really, I can confidently recommend this. Again, no secrets from your young people.
1:23.3	They should know that this is just kind of like part of the deal. But we're talking about that today, what you can do to protect your kids from things like
1:31.2	interacting with AIs as companions and the kinds of things that I probably scared you about
1:40.0	during that episode a couple of weeks ago.
1:43.4	So you can also get a discount. So go to
1:47.3	ora.com slash humans and you can protect your kids for less than $5 a month. It's really,
1:54.2	this is good high quality. I really wouldn't, this is too serious for me to mess around with.
1:59.3	And I think ORA is a brand that I feel great about.
2:03.5	So I hope you enjoy this conversation. I hope you sign up to get ORA for your kids, for their phones,
2:10.9	and for any devices that you're using. And when I say kids, I'm still like hoping that you're,
2:16.2	they're much older than kids and they're
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