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Teens will be enthusiastic early adopters of AI, tech companies can't be trusted to set appropriate guardrails, and banning won't work. The urgent task is building digital literacy and safety education before AI amplifies existing inequalities in education and employment.
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The conversation turns to AI as the next front in the teen safety debate, with Manoush noting parents are already filing lawsuits against companies over chatbot-influenced teen deaths. Odgers sees the same structural dynamics playing out: teens will enthusiastically adopt conversational AI, tech companies have neither the incentive nor the track record to implement developmentally appropriate guardrails, and banning access will only widen educational and economic inequality. She describes the divergence she witnesses in her own circle — her 16-year-old daughter refuses to use AI on moral grounds, while universities whose commencement speakers mention AI get booed by students worried about their careers [1] — Candice Odgers "Teens will be enthusiastic early adopters of AI, tech companies can't be trusted to set appropriate guardrails, and banning won't work. The…" 50:00 . A professor who required students to use AI and critically reflect on it offers a third path. The equity dimension is particularly acute: in the Global South, AI tutoring could reach children who have no other access to education, but if wealthy families shape AI-literacy while low-income communities are excluded, the gap widens. The lesson from 20 years of tech panics, Odgers argues, is to build safety and literacy infrastructure from the start rather than chasing each new platform with a ban.
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