AI Is the New Social Media. Can We Protect Kids This Time?

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. It seems like every week there's another big headline about artificial intelligence. AI chatbots are becoming our friends, our co-workers, and our confidants.

Companies are recent to put AI assistance into everything we interact with. From our cars to our kitchen appliances. And lawmakers are scrambling to figure out how to think through all these changes. and how to protect their constituents from the potential harms of this rapidly evolving technology. For me, it all feels like it's happening really fast.

And it's hard to know what to make of it. Can we harness the benefits of AI without putting our well being at serious risk? And what if anything have we learned from our mistakes with other technologies from the past? These are some of the questions I explored at this year's South by South West EDU. An annual conference focused on innovation, teaching, and learning.

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