Jonathan Haidt

Their schools are all phone free.

And that happened because some others read the anxious generation in English before it came out in Portuguese and they got moving on it.

So countries are doing this around the world.

I think we are, you know, there was a tech lash in the late 2010s when people, there was a kind of a zeitgeist that kind of like, hey, wait, maybe the technology is actually kind of messing up society.

Okay, so that happened pretty quickly in late 2010s.

I think now we're in a similar sort of tech lash, only it's over our children.

And it's not like some abstract, it's hurting the children.

We can see it's hurting my children.

And so I think that we are having a kind of a global reckoning.

It began last year, it's intensifying.

So I think we are at a turning point.

But on the other hand, with all of these toys coming out with ChatGPT and other chatbots in them, those toys are gonna be given to two and three-year-olds at Christmas.

There are gonna be a lot of chatbot toys and chatbot teddy bears under the Christmas tree.

So we don't have two or three years to block that.

We really have to have a clear message.

Nobody should get their child a toy with AI in it.

Nobody should do that.

Now, maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe this will be a boon to children's social development, but what we learned from social media is no, this is very, very unlikely to be good for kids.

So that we don't have five years on that.