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A rising physique of analysis exhibits that social media is designed to be addictive and feed kids age-inappropriate content material. That is resulting in increased charges of despair and loneliness. As a mother or father, that is heartbreaking information however not shocking. Involved mother and father, legislators, and psychology consultants 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, a web-based youngster 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 sensible. So what are mother and father to do? Tim advocates for “kangaroo parenting.”
Who’s Tim Estes?
Tim Estes is a pioneering govt 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 knowledge analytics for 20+ years. Estes envisioned a way by which computer systems may be taught to precisely interpret language, perceive context, and extract crucial intelligence.
Dubbed “Wall Road’s Robocop” by Forbes, the know-how in Digital Reasoning grew to become the market commonplace for making use of AI and Pure Language Processing to communications knowledge throughout textual content and voice and was adopted by a majority of Tier 1 Monetary Establishments across the globe. Its know-how 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 biggest deployed system to assist legislation 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 lively Angel Investor, Advisor, Board Member, and Mentor to CEOs in a number of industries. His latest startup, Angel AI, makes use of the most recent advances in generative AI to vary how children use the web to empower and defend them. The mission of Angel is to harness the facility of AI to lift more healthy and happier people, beginning with our children. As a mother or father himself, Tim has devoted his life to retaining children secure on-line. He ceaselessly advocates for change on Capitol Hill and just lately 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 good pay attention for folks with children utilizing the web.
What Did We Focus on?
On this episode, we chat with Tim about retaining our kids secure on-line and Kangaroo parenting on this digital age. Listed here are a number of of the questions that we lined 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 type?
- How can mother and father instill wholesome on-line habits and bounds?
- What’s it that folks must know that you understand concerning the web and retaining our children secure on-line?
- What’s your primary piece of recommendation for parenting a toddler in our digital world?
Tim’s Sources
- Web site: angelkids.ai
- LinkedIn: Tim Estes
- Thorn: Tim labored intently with Thorn, a corporation co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore that combats youngster intercourse trafficking.
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