Preserving Our Youngsters Protected On-line with Tim Estes – Podcast Ep 140

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A rising physique of analysis reveals that social media is designed to be addictive and feed youngsters age-inappropriate content material. That is resulting in increased charges of melancholy and loneliness. As a mum or dad, that is heartbreaking information however not stunning. Involved mother and father, legislators, and psychology specialists are advocating for abstinence – particularly banning social media and smartphone use till children attain highschool age, and understandably so. However whereas their intentions are good, our visitor, Tim Estes, an internet baby security advocate, believes that taking away units altogether isn’t the reply both. He says it creates a “pink elephant paradox.” He believes that the extra we attempt to take social media and smartphones away from children, the extra they’ll need them. It is smart. So what are mother and father to do? Tim advocates for “kangaroo parenting.”

Who’s Tim Estes?

Tim Estes is a pioneering government within the Synthetic Intelligence and Pure Language Processing area. He based and led Digital Reasoning in 2000, an AI chief within the house of unstructured information analytics for 20+ years. Estes envisioned a method by which computer systems might be taught to precisely interpret language, perceive context, and extract vital intelligence.

Dubbed “Wall Avenue’s Robocop” by Forbes, the expertise in Digital Reasoning grew to become the market customary for making use of AI and Pure Language Processing to communications information throughout textual content and voice and was adopted by a majority of Tier 1 Monetary Establishments across the globe. Its expertise additionally supported key Protection and Intelligence efforts within the U.S. Authorities. It enabled nationwide most cancers screening programs to automate affected person detection and prioritization and created the most important deployed system to help regulation enforcement within the disruption of kid intercourse trafficking rings in North America. It was merged with Smarsh in November 2020 to create the market chief in Communications Intelligence for Monetary Providers.

Tim left the buying firm, Smarsh, on the finish of 2021 and is now an energetic Angel Investor, Advisor, Board Member, and Mentor to CEOs in a number of industries. His latest startup, Angel AI, makes use of the newest advances in generative AI to alter how children use the web to empower and defend them. The mission of Angel is to harness the facility of AI to boost more healthy and happier people, beginning with our youngsters. As a mum or dad himself, Tim has devoted his life to maintaining children secure on-line. He incessantly advocates for change on Capitol Hill and not too long ago briefed the Home and Senate management on these points. We’re so impressed and so grateful for the work Tim does. This episode is a superb hear for folks with children utilizing the web.

What Did We Talk about?

On this episode, we chat with Tim about maintaining our kids secure on-line and Kangaroo parenting on this digital age. Listed below are a number of of the questions that we coated in our dialog:

• How do you suggest mother and father handle units, social media, and different digital platforms for his or her children on this digital world?
• I do know you’re an advocate for “kangaroo parenting.” Are you able to inform us extra about this parenting fashion?
• How can mother and father instill wholesome on-line habits and limits?
• What’s it that oldsters must know that you understand concerning the web and maintaining our youngsters secure on-line?
• What’s your primary piece of recommendation for parenting a baby in our digital world?

Tim’s Sources

• Web site: angelkids.ai
• LinkedIn: Tim Estes
• Thorn: Tim labored carefully with Thorn, a company co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore that combats baby intercourse trafficking.

Thanks for listening to this episode! Observe us on our podcast Instagram web page @thebabychickchat, and tell us what you assume and if there are another matters you’d like us to cowl. Cheers to maintaining our youngsters secure on-line and permitting them to develop and discover with our steering!