"The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a charity, has said the vast majority of such material reported to it is “self-generated”, with children tricked or extorted into using the phone’s camera to produce sexual images of themselves and share them." ft.com/content/6abfd6…

📢"The window of opportunity is now, but we must act fast" Our Board Member Gaia Bernstein makes a stirring call to action in after babel to use legal action & regulation to pressure #AI companies to "safeguard adolescents' mental health and well being"

Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets." "I don’t want digital. I don’t want AI. I don’t want simulation. I want old-fashioned craftsmanship. I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering."

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Today Sacha Haworth intro’d a powerful panel featuring Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan & Rep. Alan Lowenthal for a Can’t Look Away talkback event we were proud to co-host w/Common Sense Media in Sacramento to highlight CA’s leadership on kids online safety & holding Big Tech accountable.

LLM adoption among US workers is closing in on 50%. Meanwhile labor productivity growth is lower than in 2020. Many counter-arguments can be made here, e.g. "they don't know yet how to be productive with it, they've only been using for 1-2 years", "50% is still too low to see

Today, is a solemn day, where we honor all those who have succumbed to this poison and their families. But it’s also a day, where Advocates nationwide, are going out to their communities and having events, where education and awareness is front and center. Thank you Attorney General Pamela Bondi

Christine McComas lost her daughter Grace to cyberbullying. Learn how #KOSA will protect kids online. Eleanor K. Gaetan youtube.com/watch?v=nTOBTr…

Very hopeful thought.

RFK Jr. Cut Grants for Autism Research While Vowing to Find a Cause propublica.org/article/rfk-jr…

A patchwork of share-of-fault doctrines determine when agentic AI might face liability for consumer harms. In some states, consumers face a critical accountability gap. Check out ARI's latest research on policy approaches for addressing agentic AI harms: ari.us/wp-content/upl…

What should parents do if their child is groomed by a predator in an online space? Internet safety expert Fareedah Shaheed Fareedah 💎 فريدة offers her insights from a personal experience in this #AskTheExperts short. Learn more #OnlineSafety tips here 🔗 bit.ly/3UrqDQd

"~ 500 reports linked to child sextortion over 2 years reported to National Center for Missing & Exploited Children tied to scam compounds in SE Asia, Another 18,000 child exploitation reports made to NCMEC also contain IP addresses used by devices at known scam compound locations" Eleanor K. Gaetan wired.com/story/child-se…

Six years ago, my daughter walked to school on her own for the first time (age 9). It was the start of a flowering of independence. My eternal thanks to Lenore Skenazy, who inspired me to let her do it. She wrote about the decision parents face, here: letgrow.org/jonathan-haidt…

Powerful tribute.

One thing I know for sure, AI isn't going to produce new jobs for these people. "Over 1,000 International Paper workers will soon lose their jobs.....The company will close The Savannah Mill, Savannah Box Plant and the Riceboro Mill by the end of September.

A week that started with Molly Rose Foundation demonstrating how TikTok pushes out suicide and self-harm content to teens ends with them laying off hundreds of trust and safety jobs in London. Screams a commitment to making things better.