Last week I wrote about Jonathan Haidt’s update on what has happened in the year since his book The Anxious Generation was published. For the most part, Haidt had a lot of good news to report about parents around the world who seemed to find common ground around some of the ideas he was promoting, specifically that smart phones and social media are creating bad outcomes for a lot of kids and need to be more tightly controlled.
As positive as all of this sounded, there was one thing that had him worried. Just as parents seem to be making moves to deal with the damage caused by screens and social media, AI was hovering on the horizon. And that technology has the potential to scramble childhood even further.
Haidt didn’t really go into a lot of detail about his concerns about AI in his piece for the Free Press, but in an interview published today by Ezra Klein,…
