What do generative AI and social media have in common? A lack of regulation.
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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This week, we’re talking about how teenagers are using artificial intelligence tools like chatbots and image generators, often without the knowledge of their parents and teachers, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Common Sense Media. Monday we heard about that research from Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of the group. And now we want to home in on a specific piece of what he said: “If you look back at the advent of social media, about 20 years ago, we pretty much blew the regulatory side of that, but also the educating teachers and parents part of that. And we left kids on their own.” So we called up Nathan Sanders, an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, who has written about the overlapping risks of AI and social media.
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| 1:06.2 | I'm Megan McCarty Carino. This week we're talking about how teenagers are using artificial intelligence tools like chatbots and image generators. |
| 1:24.5 | Often without the knowledge of their parents and teachers, according to a recent report |
| 1:29.8 | from the nonprofit common sense media. |
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