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And ethically, is it right to do that?

I think that's really important.

We're running a big experiment on the next generation because kids...

Young, young children nowadays spend a lot less time looking at people's faces than they used to.

Will they be socialised in a way that will allow them to lead happy lives later on?

We don't know.

I do.

I do.

Yeah.

Well, just because it's a massive experiment.

I mean, it's obvious that from developmental psychology that young children are predisposed to be sort of paying attention to social interactions with the people around them, the gaze and faces and features and all of that.

If they have less

opportunity to make those connections, have those experiences at a very young age.

It seems like that's bound to have an effect on how they relate to people later on.

Don't see how it couldn't.

I mean, there are already experiments done on

monkeys in the 1950s, sort of depriving them of maternal contact.

And it didn't work out well for those monkeys.

I mean, should we be doing that experiment on children, sort of depriving them of what is instinctively the kind of social engagement that, you know, young humans seem to need to develop normally?

Thank you very much, Tim.