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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 greater charges of melancholy and loneliness. As a dad or mum, 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 little one 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 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 study to precisely interpret language, perceive context, and extract important intelligence.
Dubbed “Wall Road’s Robocop” by Forbes, the expertise 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 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 assist 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 most recent 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 dad or mum himself, Tim has devoted his life to retaining children protected on-line. He continuously 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 good hear for folks with children utilizing the web.
What Did We Talk about?
On this episode, we chat with Tim about retaining our youngsters protected 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 advocate 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 model?
- How can mother and father instill wholesome on-line habits and limits?
- What’s it that oldsters have to know that concerning the web and retaining our youngsters protected 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 corporation co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore that combats little one intercourse trafficking.
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