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 Jennifer Dylan As parents, we can teach our kids valuable life lessons, but the constant stream of apps, games, and social media has changed what "parental control" really means. Kids now spend time in digital spaces where we aren’t always there to guide them. Yet when it comes [...]
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 [...]
The FBI has seen an alarming increase in the number of cases involving children and teens being threatened and coerced into sending explicit images online—a crime called sextortion. Parents and teachers should be aware that teenage boys have been the most common targets in these recent cases. The National [...]
Do you know who is teaching your child? It’s a fair question to ask and keep asking as, yes, AI in one form or another, is probably already in your child’s classroom. According to Statista, globally 86% of students said they were using AI tools in their schoolwork. Almost [...]
If you are asking yourself, HOW can I protect my children or my students from the risks of AI, good! Savvy Cyber Kids wants you to be involved in your children’s lives, but especially how they use technology as their brains develop. Did you know there is a booming, [...]
When you read about AI, it’s not hard to notice that there are more questions than data, and by a long shot. We, as a society, have not had the opportunity to fully consider the impact of AI that has crept into all aspects of living. We are especially [...]
Sextortion is a type of child sexual exploitation where minors are blackmailed with the threat of public sharing of nude or sexual images of them by a person who demands more images, sexual activity or money from the child. This can happen when a child has shared an image [...]
