{"id":1037832,"date":"2026-09-23T07:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037832"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:25:19","slug":"ex-google-safety-chief-warns-ai-could-harm-children-more-than-social-media-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/ex-google-safety-chief-warns-ai-could-harm-children-more-than-social-media-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google safety chief warns AI could harm children more than social media did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the trust and safety team at Alphabet&#8217;s Google this week called for a slowdown in AI development, warning that the tech industry was repeating the same mistakes from the social media era, potentially causing even greater harm to children. <\/p>\n<p>Social media companies are paying huge sums and facing thousands of lawsuits over claims they harmed young users, while governments around the world are working to curb minors&#8217; access to their platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the trust and safety team at Alphabet&#8217;s Google this week called for a slowdown in AI development, warning that the tech industry was repeating the same mistakes from the social media era, potentially causing even greater harm to children. Social media companies are paying huge sums and facing thousands of lawsuits over claims they harmed young users, while governments around the world are working to curb minors&#8217; access to their platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037857,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037832\/revisions\/1037857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}