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Finding Balance: Managing Screen Time in a Digital World
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 [...]
Cyber Savvy Kids Meet Agentic AI: What It Is and Why It Matters
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 [...]
Sextortion Criminals Are Targeting Teenage Boys
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 [...]
Who Is Teaching Your Kids? AI In the Schools
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 [...]
Your Kids Are Hanging Out With AI – It’s Not All Healthy
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, [...]
How Does AI Impact Children?
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 & Kids: What Parents & Teachers Need to Know
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 [...]
You Are The Disinformation You Eat
Childhood development experts understand that children develop their central social and political opinions during their formative years. This means that the online worlds our kids play in are having a huge role in our children’s future lives. Like the adage, "you are what you eat," our children are in [...]
AI Dolls Are Fun, But They Can Be Used to Trick You
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 [...]
It’s The Information Age & We Are So Confused
Most teens get their news as visual sources of information like videos and images from social media sites and YouTube. This means that social media, personalized news feeds and algorithms – the same tools that prioritize sensational content and play big roles in spreading misinformation and disinformation, are actually [...]
NO! Apps Like Linq Still Don’t Make Sending Nudes Safe
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 [...]
What Does Your Child Think about AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer to learn so that it can perform tasks that are typically done by people. AI is already deeply integrated into our modern lives. You interact with it every day, using voice assistants on smartphones, receiving personalized recommendations on streaming platforms, [...]