Tech Billionaires’ Screen-Time Limits for Their Kids Offer a Warning About AI
AI can make social media safer for kids by verifying age, detecting harmful content, redesigning recommendations around wellbeing instead of engagement, identifying harmful content patterns, and enabling independent algorithm audits. The goal isn't less technology. It's better technology designed for children. We spent two decades teaching algorithms to maximize attention. The next generation of AI should teach them to protect it.
If the people who understand the attention economy better than almost anyone are limiting their own children's exposure to it, maybe the problem isn't simply screen time. Maybe it's what we've designed screens to optimize for.
A recent Fortune report highlighted technology billionaires and executives who have placed meaningful restrictions on their children's access to smartphones, social media, YouTube and other digital products. These aren't people who misunderstand technology. Many helped build the products and business models that transformed how billions of people communicate, consume information and spend their...
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