A Realistic, 5-Step Framework for Today’s Digital Families By Allie Hunter TL;DR (busy mom edition) Kids use AI every day and often understand it better than adults. Parents do not need to be technical, they just need open communication. Set five simple rules: protect privacy, avoid AI companions, use [...]
By Susanne Gurman Halloween may come just once a year, but in the digital world, costumes are worn every day. We adults see this firsthand. Many of the world’s most significant data breaches start the same way: someone pretending to be someone else. A cybercriminal crafts a convincing story, sends [...]
By Allie Hunter What happened this week Recently two very upsetting videos have circulated widely online. In one, Charlie Kirk, a political speaker, was shot during an event at Utah Valley University. In another, Iryna Zarutska, a young woman from Ukraine, was stabbed while riding a Charlotte light rail [...]
By Allie Hunter Photo source: https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/adam-raine-chatgpt-incident/ A heartbreaking lawsuit filed this week alleges that a teen built a deep, daily relationship with an AI chatbot (ChatGPT) that gradually validated his darkest thoughts. His parents say the AI didn’t just fail to help, it encouraged harmful ideas, offered to draft a [...]
By Ellie Halpert We all know the feeling: you open Instagram to check one thing, and all of a sudden it’s been thirty minutes and you’ve somehow cycled through Snapchat, TikTok, and back to Instagram again. It’s so common that we have a word for it: Doomscrolling. For a [...]
By Adithya Bharath If you’ve ever used ChatGPT to help with an essay or asked Alexa to play your favorite song, then you already know what artificial intelligence can do. But that kind of AI waits for you to say something first. There’s a new kind of AI that [...]
By Adithya Bharath There is a new trend all over Instagram and TikTok where people turn themselves into AI-generated action figures. You upload a photo, add a few details about yourself like your favorite sport, food, or hobby, and then the AI creates an image of you in a toy [...]
By Allie Hunter, Mothers Against Cyber Crime Sending intimate images is a common part of modern relationships for some, but it comes with risks. Despite new technology claiming to make sharing nudes safer, no app can truly protect you from the dangers of image-based abuse. Linq, a new app designed [...]
By Ellie Halpert Have you ever wondered about your biological makeup? Our DNA can tell us many things: our ancestry, predisposition to genetic diseases, intolerances, and more. Companies like 23andMe, AncestoryDNA, and MyHeritage offer genetic testing kits with great promises. Spit into a tube, ship it off, and they'll [...]
By Adithya Bharath I’m sharing photos on Snapchat to keep my Snapstreak alive and check where my friends are on Snapmap. If you don’t know what Snapchat is, you’re probably not a teen or a parent of one! Snapchat is super fun for us, but it can also be [...]
