Elon Musk SAVING Kids?! Warns Children Are Being Programmed By AI On Social Media

Amber Duke and Jessica Burbank discuss Elon Musk's comments that social media is dangerous for children. #elonmusk
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[@sherrykumar2883]

I’m so thankful I was a child before social media.

[@MichelleChristopher312]

Me too, Sherry. ❤️

[@christopherneufelt8971]

You had however tv, magazines and movies. The point is the child to get familiarity with the media, not dependency from the media.

[@Mister_Rooster]

What are you talking about? You look like you’re in your late 30s pretty much your generation was hooked on chat rooms and early MySpace or GeoCities

[@sumofat4994]

@@Mister_Rooster No one carried those around those in their pockets. Its not comparable.

[@sumofat4994]

@@christopherneufelt8971 Not comparable you have no idea how addictive a cell phone is.

[@oceantransistor]

Next he will say only X and Tesla are good for children. 😅

[@ryand667]

Not just kids, Elon.

[@davidbellecy1709]

I went to school before the internet. Really glad I did. Social media is really disgusting. The internet can be useful, but social media is just a propaganda machine.

[@Mister_Rooster]

Yeah, I think people used to say the same thing about variety TV shows and MTV I’m just saying

[@davidwestwater2219]

​@Mister_Rooster it's not the same it's realy not. I'm addicted to my phone and I'm 58 doing this to kids realy is disgusting

[@adaephonprime855]

Is he promoting or warning? He runs a social media platform...

[@LeilaniG808]

When I see their behavior when parents take it away I’m stunned!

[@jackgardener2531]

Kids weren’t allowed to use the landline when I was young.

[@sherrykumar2883]

We had a time limit. A five minute limit even

[@MichelleChristopher312]

Landline👊 I miss the good old days.

[@nsbd90now]

Why? I've never heard of that before. How did you call friends and so on? That certainly was not a common thing at all when I was a kid in the 60s. I knew our phone number when I was in kindergarten.

[@nsbd90now]

@@sherrykumar2883 You mean for long distance? That was expensive. Local calls weren't. What can you say beyond "hello" in five minutes? Sounds kind of controlling, to say the least.

[@MichelleChristopher312]

@@nsbd90now honestly my landline phone number growing up and gramma's work number are to this day the only numbers i still am able to memorize🤓. Smart phones have made me a lil reliant 🙈 I could talk on the phone more than 5 min too 🤓 I think the poster here is just making a point we back then did have more rules & could suffer (spanking) consequences lol.. ouchie. It worked.🙈

[@rijs4303]

Why is cutting social media for kids a hard decision for parents to make ??

[@MichelleChristopher312]

Sadly these days there are kids who run the homes now bc disciplining children in a common sense way has become a parent crime.

[@jeffreykopko3851]

​@@MichelleChristopher312It's also simply easier to let technology raise your kids than actually parenting them yourself.

[@lukeoleson6323]

When parents separate, the child is exposed to an extra "shared care" environment than before. There becomes an additional set of rules and parental control is often compromised.

[@MichelleChristopher312]

@@jeffreykopko3851 soSo true,...

[@MichelleChristopher312]

@@lukeoleson6323 I agree. I was raised by my mom and grandmother. Both pretty equal but also my aunt's & uncles helped raised me. Now THEY had strict rules lol. Back in the 70s & 80s it was the families & good neighbors who helped raise us kids. Just different times...harder now I guess. More challenging??

[@emperorlelouch5696]

I'm glad that this is finally being taken seriously. All schools should not allow for phone use during class hours and the pouch idea is absolutely brilliant. I hope more institutions start to take note of the severe psychological impacts on the minds of young childrena and how it effects their attention spans, behavior, and relationships.

[@DanHorrell-sb3xu]

I can't imagine growing up with cameras and the ability to record video is a constant presence.

[@godmisfortunatechild]

We're glossing over the main elephant in the room which is the imminent arrival of AGI in ≤5 years

[@sdrc92126]

It will be every child's constant companion from birth far surpassing the influence of parents. It will be their god. It is also a software program that will do exactly what it is programmed to do.

[@robmari497]

Jessica, he said “limit” not cut off.

[@nooneimportant7949]

Kids that have phones can text each other to be social. They don't need social media to be social and have friends.

[@lornamackay4069]

The reality is still that most child kidnapping is by an estranged parent, and most child abuse is from people known to the child - the danger is not from strangers, yet our society is conditioning our children to feel unsafe outdoors. In my province, parents can be prosecuted if their children are outdoors unsupervised under the age of 11. Parents can not allow their young children to play in the neighbourhood park by themselves, walk to and from school by themselves, go to clubs or other activities by themselves, This puts a huge burden on parents, and further limits the time children have to play outdoors. Of course, instead of playing outside with friends, children use their computers or other media to play or be entertained. I, and all my children walked to kindergarten without escort, and often played outdoors with friends from dawn to dusk. No child needs their own phone until they are old enough to earn the money to buy it themselves. And certainly, children can be taught how to navigate traffic and go to school and activities on their own once they are old enough to go to school.

[@jamesnasium7036]

My siblings and I walked to school by ourselves since kindergarten. By the time we were 7 or 8 the rule was to come home and put away the bicycle when the streetlights came on. We quickly learned which particular streetlight in the entire surrounding area was the last to come on.

[@annaandjuju]

Most kids aren’t using X. They are mostly flipping through KZbin shorts and playing Roblox. I can see how algorithms come into play, but AI?

[@FreefallSC]

You underestimate the apathy of parents. I thought so too but most of the kids at my kids school not only have a Tik Tok but actually post videos on them and everything. Its genuinely disturbing stuff

[@annaandjuju]

@@FreefallSC the problem with TikTok is still mostly algorithms, not AI. AI will eventually get even the most apathetic parents to care. AI content is so mindless that it annoys the c* out of most adults.

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

​@@annaandjuju An algorithm is a form of AI....

[@lachlanbell8390]

​@@annaandjuju Slightly more Inoffensive words here

[@lachlanbell8390]

@@annaandjuju ​A.I. literally *is* algorithms. They're functionally the same thing. People seem to have a fundamental misapprehension about what this A.I. technology actually is, and that there's a meaningful qualitative difference in the technology - there's not. What we call "artificial intelligence" today is literally just advanced algorithms, which incorporate what's called "machine learning". We program algorithms to aggregate data and then update themselves based on that data. That's why A.I. research/development requires huge data sets to feed into the algorithm, and why stuff like ChatGPT is known as "large language models" - because it works by analysing huge sets of written language in order to identify patterns and know what an appropriate response to a given query looks like. It's merely pattern recognition & replication at a scale beyond what any individual human is capable of. This is why some A.I. applications are able to produce remarkable results without anyone understanding _how_ or _why;_ for example, A.I. medical imaging that can identify/diagnose particular medical conditions with unbelievable accuracy - far beyond human doctors - based on medical images (X-rays, CT scans etc.), but nobody knows what the A.I. has identified in those images that provide such consistently reliable diagnoses. Because the human developers only code (program) the algorithm how to process the data it's fed and then update itself based on what it learns from the data, they don't know how or why it reaches the conclusions it does, and cannot explain what it's identified that allows it to produce such accurate results. This is why I think fears about artificial general intelligence (AGI) are overblown. The jump from our current algorithm-based machine learning technology to AGI technology is like the jump from regular (binary) computing to quantum computing, and I'm unaware of any developments that make such a monumental change a viable possibility in the near/foreseeable future. As incredible as it is what our current algorithm-based A.I. can do, it's still only able to do what it's programmed to do. An AGI technology that's able to formulate its own objectives, and means of achieving them, would require a fundamentally more advanced technology base to be built upon, AFAIU. Of course, that kind of Skynet-level AGI technology ultimately gets to the question of free will, which gets to the question of consciousness itself. As someone who believes that consciousness is more than merely a product of electrical impulses in the brain, I'm personally very skeptical that humans are capable of producing technology with an artificial free will at all, let alone at our current, relatively primitive stage of development. Maybe a hyper-advanced, intergalactic, Star Trek-esque future human civilization could hope to achieve such a feat, but we still haven't cracked more basic technological milestones like nuclear fusion (or analogous methods for abundant energy without serious hazardous by-products), or propulsion systems that don't rely on either hydrocarbon fuels or electric (rotational) motors + simple Newtonian physics (eg: friction/resistance). Even *IF* such an advanced civilisation were capable of producing technology with an artificial equivalent of free will, however, that's not where we are today. In my personal opinion, I think it's the prevailing paradigm of scientific materialism holding us back. The dogmatic insistence that there is nothing beyond the physical, 3-dimensional reality we subjectively experience makes in anathema for scientists to investigate anything with metaphysical implications, in the same way the Catholic church's dogmatic insistence that Earth was the centre of the universe made Galileo's hypothesis of heliocentrism anathema. In fact, it's this dogmatic materialism - which asserts that human beings are just biological automatons - that makes people believe AGI is a realistic possibility in the first place, IMO. If you dismiss the existence of free will (consciousness) out-of-hand, then you don't have to contend with the near-impossibility of reproducing an artificial equivalent. I think it's probs safe to presume most, if not virtually all, technologists in the fields around A.I. are atheists who adhere to this worldview of scientific materialism, and the according belief that human intelligence is just a biological algorithm arising from brainwaves. Someone who defines human intelligence to be such a crude phenomenon, would necessarily believe such biological algorithms to be essentially interchangeable with digital algorithms encoded by humans - and, therefore, that our current machine-learning algorithms are fundamentally the same thing as human intelligence. In that model, General (human) Intelligence is merely an advanced iteration of biological algorithms, so AGI is just an advanced iteration of digital algorithms - not a fundamentally different thing. If you believe that, then it's self-evident that AGI is just around the corner. If you believe that scientific materialism is reductionist hubris and there's much more to reality than what we can touch/see/hear/taste/feel, then humans aren't nearly as advanced as we like to think we are and fears of looming AGI are vastly overblown. Just my $0.02. Which, now having written, I'll honestly be amazed if anyone bothers to even read. If anyone is interested enough to have read to this point, I hope I've at least given you something to think about amidst all that.

[@dustinavant2003]

Flip phone for the win.

[@theorncampbell4432]

The description of the study about the school in Mass. interestingly recounts the EXACT same information as several schools in Aus that have the same mobile device related policies. I worked in community development, with young people, more than a decade ago. We dealt with the same issues back then. My team drafted social media usage policies that were adopted by the rest of our local council. The most astonishing thing about this segment is the seeming lack of understanding of how long these issues have existed and how well established the research has been for years. Usage and incident rates have increased, but the dangers have been visible and the stakes have been high since around 2010.

[@queenj.8i895]

KIDS SHOULDN’T HAVE SMARTPHONES! (NOR OTHER THINGS LIKE SKIN SERUMS & BOY/GIRLFRIENDS…) They should find other things to do, should have FRIENDS, and should focus on school and housework and BEING A KID. I have 3 teens who are very happy, healthy, and fine with the fact that I have my rules. At the end of the day they appreciate that they are loved and have discipline in their lives. They share their electronics and I have all passwords. No Social Media here. We should go back to having the receptionists take & make phone calls for students. Forget phones during school hours. God bless ❤️‍🔥

[@humairamowlana3149]

Actually in the majority of the Sri Lankan schools, phones are lot allowed to students yet

[@mddell24]

Kids are not allowed to: be outside, be on social media, be with friends, be alone, run in the sun, be adventurous and worst no cook/clean/laundry/ and sometimes not even feed a pet. Real learning is always risk and some danger. The modern western world is so safe kids and adults get no joy. Elon, his chronic distractions 😴

[@ab8588]

Looks like parents will have to do some actual parenting .

[@PB-or2fd]

God forbid.

[@jamessderby]

teach your kids how to have a healthy relationship with the internet, it's not that hard. you don't have to ban them from social media that's not going to help them in the long run.

[@k54dhKJFGiht]

For years, we have been feeding ourselves to algorithms, in order to make better algorithms. Why else would we have such a deliberate, and profound, breakdown of privacy? The apps on our phones convey everything about us - and we are (collectively) already fine with it.

[@jaybanks5803]

The number of times I hear "well if you have nothing to hide" Totally missing the point.

[@cristinawilliams8026]

We have to protect our children…I don’t yet know what to do.

[@active1508]

What does a school teach they can't learn online? They can make more money than many CEO's by getting views on their social media content. We'd rather give scholarships for sports than academia anyway? TBH I kinda think they're ahead of the curve.

[@limitisillusion7]

I think the spectrum is larger than ever before. The smartest children are much smarter now because of social media and vice versa.

[@tamaraspencer4024]

Ahead of the curve if you want our future to look like the movie Idiocracy 🤦

[@nsbd90now]

Oh. My. God. I think you need some Brawndo. It has electrolytes y'know. I learned that online because I know how to do research!

[@nsbd90now]

@@tamaraspencer4024 My jaw dropped over that comment. It's always so obvious who isn't getting good grades in school and looking for an easy way out and a get-rich quick scheme.

[@thehighend4545]

When tv personalities and athletes are mistaken for people of importance, this is what happens.

[@chrisdelarosa8836]

Atleast 17-18 before they can get a phone they can take everywhere

[@lckario]

Absolutely true.

[@michaelcolors]

Great job discussing these concerns.❤

[@michaelnewell6385]

When I was a kid we had three TV channels, bikes, and plenty of kids to play with in the neighborhood. We were never bored. I developed friendships with people that I am still in touch with today. You do not build relationships in 2D.

[@kevin02mulder]

use trust worthy AI - friends cheat 😁

[@miker9er]

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor THIEVES, nor the GREEDY, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor SWINDLERS will inherit the kingdom of God.

[@zgobermn6895]

God bless you and your new marriage, Amber.

[@chefnyc]

Social media is not social. Talking to your classmates is. It is not a hard decision.

[@NickDrinksWater]

I think this applies to everyone

[@tangodown2721]

Jessica "there will be pulling back on using AI"....yea that assumes that lesson is learned before you CAN'T pull it back. I don't have much faith in corporations to learn that until it's to late because profit has them fully blinded.

[@gmontenegro9711]

Wasn’t there a study about females having far higher rates of depression compared to right before myspace?

[@felixmidas3245]

1:10 The name Haidt is pronounced like height.

[@will7its]

Good job today ladies.....

[@adancdego6339]

Oh Jessica. 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

[@DavidWenzel-lo8cs]

Get them off social Period

[@MirceaKitsune]

Get help. Both Elon Musk and any other "adult" who believes AI exists because they can no longer separate movies and video games from reality.

[@adolfceazer4711]

Guy your cars self drive, that can’t be good for us.

[@chrispriest7167]

I don't get why being social through the internet is this super bad thing, but being social face to face is somehow all right... I think some people just need something to blame their problems on.

[@sumofat4994]

Clueless. Social media aka texting random people on the internet is NOT SOCIALIZING

[@user-it1hc9nn8i]

Kods also need to be saved from Satanic sacrifice as we!!.

[@philipbenson8388]

This falls under the category of "obvious things we know to be absolutely true, but do not say".

[@limitisillusion7]

Social media is programming adults too. At least you can push back on social media... That's better that we can say for the legacy media that programmed all of the current adults when they were children.

[@jamescarter8311]

Social media is a thousand times worse for children that TV ever was. Social Media is the new smoking.

[@limitisillusion7]

@@jamescarter8311 I completely disagree

[@lenworth-yf1kb]

Dopamine maximizing AI? Could this be the reason why drug addiction is so prevalent? Are we creating dopamine addicts?

[@codycrawford7842]

Amber had some thoughts on this one. Well thought out and researched.

[@SixOneNiner23]

Yeah his AI

[@alephnot000]

As a teacher, I 100% agree with Musk. Social media and AI are dangerous. We must keep AI out of education or risk further damage to our children.

[@ronaldwatts3367]

I don't believe that Study

[@chrispriest7167]

Agreed. You can construct a study any way you like to get the results you are after.

[@ronaldwatts3367]

@chrispriest7167 Right, they didn't even want their phones back at the end of the day.? 😒 cap

[@miker9er]

2 Timothy 3:1-5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

[@Aislynn775]

If AI in the school room is good, then how can it be also good for teaching? Doublespeak.

[@preshisify1]

☕🗽😷🇺🇲...... Elmer's glue and 102 degrees......

[@Oxol33]

He's just mad he didn't get there first.

[@jeshuaavila1620]

Easy look up Finland education and the approach to deal with Ai and social media is critical thinking. Important to establish education from young age to educate on analyzing news and analyze source since ai can be used to make fake news.

[@AquilesX11]

Yea and he wants to put a chip on them.

[@sdrc92126]

Why do that when you convince people to do it to themselves?

[@jamesnasium7036]

@@sdrc92126 My pets are chipped but the decision was not left to them.

[@davidwestwater2219]

There is no benefit to social media forckids

[@truthstarved]

Just say "no" to SM.

[@jamescarter8311]

Social media is a thousand times worse for children that TV ever was. Social Media is the new smoking.

[@MrGRockin]

I don't agree with the sense of dread, but my kid has to check his phone in with the teacher in the beginning of class and it's helped a lot of problems for the class

[@jeffreykopko3851]

Definately a good idea.

[@sdrc92126]

What kinds of problems?

[@jeffreykopko3851]

@@sdrc92126 I imagine it helps with a lot of things. I never had a phone when I was in school and I'm thankful for it.

[@jamesnasium7036]

That teacher is demonstrating what a bit of old school non artificial intelligence can do.

[@MrGRockin]

@sdrc92126 There was a phone or two stolen as the last things that happened but it was also causing distractions in class and arguments with the teacher. All good reasons to take the phones away during the school day in my oppinion.

[@BJJUSAF]

Well….DUH! Why do you think television shows are called programs. It’s to PROGRAM people.

[@jamescarter8311]

Not really, but Tik Tok was actually designed to destroy American children.

[@1000YearsofPeaceplan]

The Family that nets together stays together

[@1000YearsofPeaceplan]

Apple, absolute truth, anything else is a subcategory The Eden project Part of the "1000 Years of Peace project"

[@evva5243]

Kids AND adults are being programmed in general online, it’s not just by AI.

[@axepagode4321]

Once again Gen X is ignored or forgotten .... which is exactly how we like it. 😎

[@nickmanning3913]

Either get her a new microphone or stop posting on KZbin please.

[@user-cf6lu1us5x]

i agree, i cut my kids from AI and they never had access to any social media and wont until they are 18 (they are 11 and 13) . we watch youtube together if we watch it, we have agreed channels that are allowed to be viewed.......whenever we slip on these controls the kids behavior and attitude get unruly.....we make friends by calling them and inviting them over ....parents need to parent and not give up when you slip .

[@Justin.Danford]

Google AI actually wants to just “do harm.”

[@Michelle-kj7wv]

What? I thought their goals are to create more division between the population

[@jamesnasium7036]

I see what you did there.

[@GreedosGoldmine]

Totally believable, I’ve had similar fears as a father of two in similar industries to Elon, albeit in a much smaller scale.

[@kevin02mulder]

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[@GreedosGoldmine]

@@kevin02mulder funny you mention that, why my own channel is never expected to be a household name 🤣🤣🤣

[@HeartLopez-gh9xi]

This a.i is full of b.s only. That is not matter in life. Reality life must be needed in life.things important not the illusion.

[@GhostShip-iv9rg]

Distracted failure parents have distracted failure kids. Darwin's Theory in action.

[@sdrc92126]

In the future, people will be given an ai at birth that will teach them how to talk and teach the everything eliminating the need for school. It will be tailored to maximize learning to each individual. It will become everyone's best friend for life, will never hurt them. It will be god.

[@dustinavant2003]

I know ow kung-fu!

[@Michelle-kj7wv]

Don't put children into the drivers seat if they aren't mature enough and trained to do it safely

[@MirceaKitsune]

As if the "superior adult race" is any better. Like you know, the people who believe artificial intelligence is possible with logical code functions compiled to binary and running on a 64-bit processor... 5 year old children are way more intelligent than the world's top presidents and prime ministers at this date. But please: Continue discriminating and repressing people under 18 for their age everywhere, I'm sure that will solve some exotic social issue many of us never even heard of.

[@will7its]

Just throw a horses hoof in the sauce........😅

[@WhiteWabbitWarrior]

Appeal to Heaven

[@sdrc92126]

ai is the new god. Change my mind

[@blackdreamhunk3413]

cyberpunk for life!

[@1000YearsofPeaceplan]

OMG, I don't want to reconnect

[@kevin02mulder]

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[@hadid1092]

It's Gia Derza!

[@mikes4142]

There should be completely different software operating systems (OS) for non-emancipated minors that limit access & use of non-educational materials. Parents & schools can use the software to set limits on use of non-educational social media platforms.

[@CaneBTC]

so why does Elon have no ears

[@kevin02mulder]

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[@will7its]

You really don't need them with phones......

[@GrizzlyBeatzMusic]

Protect this man

[@GhostShip-iv9rg]

Addicted to phones... I she talking about kids or adult Millennials or women?

[@nocheckmarkgames]

they say "It's a threat to kids" but what they mean is, "It's a threat to our Narrative, but you don't care about that so we say Kids."

[@mattsreptileroom]

He is right of course, Elon musk is a strange case. Deffinately not to be trusted, but atleast he pops off with some real truth.

[@chasefancy3092]

Obesity has skyrocketed among children. Instead of playing sports, parents will take their children to a movie. I look at the children in high school and it makes me feel ill. You must nourish the mind, body, and soul for God. You are not doing it for yourself. Elon Musk informed the entire world they were living in a simulation. "The Odds Of Being In Base Reality Are One In Billions." This is something many humans knew 75 years ago but he affirmed it and was awarded a "Heavenly Deed" by the Angels. This is the highest deed you can acquire from God. God asks for transparency and that is the last thing humans are willing to do. Elon Musk is a blessing from above. Social Media has destroyed children.

[@kevin02mulder]

when you pick the right fruits Mobile and AI give advantage, like when kiddo sees a creeper in a raincoat they press the panic button thus waring off evil. problem no panic button was developed. AI that helps with the home work and scheduling. problem no intelligent program was developed.

[@carultch]

Helps with the homework? More like undermines the entire point of homework.

[@kevin02mulder]

@@carultch if you use it correctly doing research going deeper in substance AI should be an augmentation not a substitute :)

[@carultch]

@@kevin02mulder You have no control over whether students "use it correctly". A student can just take a picture of the assignment statement, not even read a single word of it, and still turn in a paper that is indistinguishable from work their classmate personally wrote. You aren't learning anything if the computer does all the work. We're setting ourselves up for a world where the human brain is as obsolete as horses.

[@Gemaalig]

Lol this whole segment 🤣

[@ja6975]

That gen zoomer girl is so annoying

[@johnb4314]

LOL. Elon Musk sounds like a nut.

[@jeffblock7504]

You but it's ok for them to dig in mines for Lithium. What a two faced CS

[@White.RabbitRecords]

😂 elon is dead

[@will7its]

So's the president.....🤣

[@White.RabbitRecords]

@@will7its good point 😆

[@White.RabbitRecords]

@@will7its biden has been dead since the election lol

[@kevin02mulder]

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[@kevin02mulder]

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