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Amazon Alexa wants to put your child to bed with generative AI

Amazon Alexa wants to put your child to bed with generative AI

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Amazon Alexa’s Create with Alexa feature uses conversational and generative AI to create unique stories after users select a theme, character, descriptive word, and color. Leo Zou/Amazon While researchers applaud Amazon’s safeguards to ensure the technology is safe for children, some experts worry that generative AI could trick children into believing these algorithms are smarter …

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Study: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Brain Maturation in Adolescents: Implications for Analyzing Longitudinal Data. Image Credit: Shan_shan / Shutterstock.com

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused rapid brain aging in adolescents

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In a recent Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science study, Stanford University researchers are assessing how the stress and social disruption caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the neurodevelopment of young adults. Study: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and brain maturation in adolescents: implications for longitudinal data analysis. Image …

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Catfish scams target everyone. Here's how to protect children

Catfish scams target everyone. Here’s how to protect children

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Catfishing crimes have ensnared people for years. This week, a grieving family implored parents to monitor their children’s online activity after a former Virginia state trooper fished a 15-year-old girl online. He then traveled to Southern California, where he allegedly killed the girl’s mother and grandparents. “Parents, please know your child’s online activity. Ask about …

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Protecting children as they spend years in virtual worlds

Protecting children as they spend years in virtual worlds

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Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life in 2017. Molly was ruled to have died “from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content” . The inquest into Molly’s death has rightly sparked enormous pressure for stricter regulation of social media. But to effectively …

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Can social media help young people learn about sexuality?

Can social media help young people learn about sexuality?

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MONTPELLIER, France ― During the French Days of Sexology and Sexual Health (JF3S), André Corman, MD, andrologist, sexologist and vice-president of the Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Association of Sexology, showed how the rise of social media led to reconsider paradigms of sexual health. Transform our lives Introducing the topic, Corman explained that as actors in sexual health, …

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