{"id":1041320,"date":"2026-10-07T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041320"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:26:13","slug":"a-reckoning-on-social-media-addiction-came-late-for-many-kids-will-ai-safety-be-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/a-reckoning-on-social-media-addiction-came-late-for-many-kids-will-ai-safety-be-different\/","title":{"rendered":"A reckoning on social media addiction came late for many kids. Will AI safety be different?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety. Meanwhile, a new generation of children has begun engaging with an even more potent technology: artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>While the efforts to make social media safer are still taking shape, they offer some lessons for those looking to protect children using AI &#8211; technology that is growing so quickly, the extent of its risks for young people and their development is just emerging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety. Meanwhile, a new generation of children has begun engaging with an even more potent technology: artificial intelligence. While the efforts to make social media safer are still taking shape, they offer some lessons for those looking to protect children using AI &#8211; technology that is growing so quickly, the extent of its risks for young people and their development is just emerging.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041320","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=1041320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041332,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041320\/revisions\/1041332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}