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A rising physique of analysis exhibits that social media is designed to be addictive and feed kids age-inappropriate content material. That is resulting in greater charges of melancholy and loneliness. As a father or mother, that is heartbreaking information however not stunning. Involved mother and father, legislators, and psychology consultants are advocating for abstinence – particularly banning social media and smartphone use till youngsters attain highschool age, and understandably so. However whereas their intentions are good, our visitor, Tim Estes, a web-based baby security advocate, believes that taking away gadgets altogether isn’t the reply both. He says it creates a “pink elephant paradox.” He believes that the extra we attempt to take social media and smartphones away from youngsters, the extra they’ll need them. It is smart. So what are mother and father to do? Tim advocates for “kangaroo parenting.”
Who’s Tim Estes?
Tim Estes is a pioneering govt within the Synthetic Intelligence and Pure Language Processing area. He based and led Digital Reasoning in 2000, an AI chief within the house of unstructured information analytics for 20+ years. Estes envisioned a way by which computer systems might be taught to precisely interpret language, perceive context, and extract essential intelligence.
Dubbed “Wall Road’s Robocop” by Forbes, the expertise in Digital Reasoning grew to become the market normal for making use of AI and Pure Language Processing to communications information throughout textual content and voice and was adopted by a majority of Tier 1 Monetary Establishments across the globe. Its expertise additionally supported key Protection and Intelligence efforts within the U.S. Authorities. It enabled nationwide most cancers screening methods to automate affected person detection and prioritization and created the biggest deployed system to assist regulation enforcement within the disruption of kid intercourse trafficking rings in North America. It was merged with Smarsh in November 2020 to create the market chief in Communications Intelligence for Monetary Companies.
Tim left the buying firm, Smarsh, on the finish of 2021 and is now an lively Angel Investor, Advisor, Board Member, and Mentor to CEOs in a number of industries. His latest startup, Angel AI, makes use of the newest advances in generative AI to alter how youngsters use the web to empower and defend them. The mission of Angel is to harness the facility of AI to boost more healthy and happier people, beginning with our youngsters. As a father or mother himself, Tim has devoted his life to preserving youngsters secure on-line. He ceaselessly advocates for change on Capitol Hill and not too long ago briefed the Home and Senate management on these points. We’re so impressed and so grateful for the work Tim does. This episode is a superb hear for fogeys with youngsters utilizing the web.
What Did We Focus on?
On this episode, we chat with Tim about preserving our kids secure on-line and Kangaroo parenting on this digital age. Listed here are a number of of the questions that we coated in our dialog:
- How do you advocate mother and father handle gadgets, social media, and different digital platforms for his or her youngsters on this digital world?
- I do know you might be an advocate for “kangaroo parenting.” Are you able to inform us extra about this parenting type?
- How can mother and father instill wholesome on-line habits and limits?
- What’s it that folks have to know that you recognize in regards to the web and preserving our youngsters secure on-line?
- What’s your primary piece of recommendation for parenting a toddler in our digital world?
Tim’s Assets
- Web site: angelkids.ai
- LinkedIn: Tim Estes
- Thorn: Tim labored intently with Thorn, a corporation co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore that combats baby intercourse trafficking.
Thanks for listening to this episode! Comply with us on our podcast Instagram web page @thebabychickchat, and tell us what you assume and if there are every other subjects you’d like us to cowl. Cheers to preserving our youngsters secure on-line and permitting them to develop and discover with our steerage!
