Larissa May

you're never going to get kids on board.

Well, I've been trying to do that for 10 years.

We still don't have a national legislation passed, and AI is moving faster than any other social media platform in history.

So at this point, as humans, the way I think about this is that technology is more like food than anything.

We have our own media metabolisms.

Every child is different.

Every family is different.

we must learn how to consume technology in a way that is going to support us rather than hurt us.

Because unfortunately, the systems are not built for us to thrive.

But the hope is that we can retrain young minds, and if we start early, well, the average, I can't believe I'm going to say this, the average toddler, 40 percent of them have devices before they're even in preschool.

So if we're not starting then, the moment a child sees a blue light,

then we're going to be losing ourselves to big tech.

And guess what?

It's no longer about billionaires.

It's now about trillionaires and everyone else.

Well, I've been doing it for the last decade, and what I believe is that wicked problems need wicked games, and that if we want to drive behavior change, we have to do it in a playful way and that kids are going to engage with.

We know that just having PowerPoint slides and telling kids what not to do doesn't work, so I wanted to rewrite that playbook and put young people at the center of designing, creating, and now I'm even building technology that young people are helping me design, because I know what's out there.

Surveillance and stalking our kids is not enough to support them emotionally, and our world is broken.

How should we be supporting them emotionally?

Well, I think one of the things that I always say is that if you're a parent or you're a grandparent or even just someone that lives with someone you love, is that you should never have more devices than people in a room.