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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 greater charges of despair and loneliness. As a mother or father, that is heartbreaking information however not stunning. Involved dad and mom, 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 gadgets 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 dad and mom 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 area of unstructured information analytics for 20+ years. Estes envisioned a method by which computer systems might study to precisely interpret language, perceive context, and extract crucial intelligence.
Dubbed “Wall Avenue’s Robocop” by Forbes, the expertise in Digital Reasoning turned the market normal 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 techniques to automate affected person detection and prioritization and created the biggest deployed system to help 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 Companies.
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 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 youngsters. As a mother or father himself, Tim has devoted his life to preserving children secure on-line. He ceaselessly advocates for change on Capitol Hill and 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 preserving our youngsters 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 advocate dad and mom handle gadgets, social media, and different digital platforms for his or her children on this digital world?
- I do know you might be an advocate for “kangaroo parenting.” Are you able to inform us extra about this parenting model?
- How can dad and mom instill wholesome on-line habits and bounds?
- What’s it that oldsters have to know that you recognize in regards to the web and preserving 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 intently with Thorn, a company co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore that combats little one intercourse trafficking.
Thanks for listening to this episode! Comply with us on our podcast Instagram web page @thebabychickchat, and tell us what you suppose and if there are some other subjects you’d like us to cowl. Cheers to preserving our youngsters secure on-line and permitting them to develop and discover with our steerage!
