UNCOVERED: Jonathan haidt | History Defined

The New Dark Ages Is Long on Alarm, Short on Scientific Literacy

The perils of blaming screens for everything

Reason · 21h ago

A reckoning on social media addiction came late for many kids. Will AI safety be different?

When Meta agreed to changes to its social media platforms and enhanced safeguards in an $18 billion settlement, it made progress by "getting at what we've known for years" about the dangers, said Kristin Bride, a parent advocate who has fought for social media reform since the death of her…

The Economic Times · Oct 6

A reckoning on social media addiction came late for many kids. Will AI safety be different?

The lengthy campaigns to protect kids on social media offer some lessons for those looking to protect children using artificial intelligence

The Independent UK · Oct 5

Haidt's Moment

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Reason · Aug 28

The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?

Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the health of their adult caregivers

The Guardian - UK · Jul 16

Quote of the day by MacKenzie Scott: "I would much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid"

Handing a four-year-old a real kitchen knife sounds like the setup to a parenting disaster, not a philosophy. Yet that is exactly what MacKenzie Scott and her then-husband Jeff Bezos did with their own children, and by the time those kids were seven or eight, power tools had entered the…

The Times of India · Jul 3

‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?

Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

The Guardian - US · Jun 28

Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox

Groups claim games platform’s design and business model conflict with children’s developmental needs

The Guardian - UK · May 20

A record number of 18-year-olds are set to graduate into an economy designed against them

It's the commencement season that Gen Z fought back as America hits peak 18 and peak data center at the same time.

Fortune · May 18

NYU students want to cancel commencement speaker who ripped cancel culture: ‘Parting gift of disrespect’

Professor Jonathan Haidt is accused of ‘disturbing rhetoric around antiracism, social justice, and diversity, equity and inclusion’

The Independent UK · May 13