🕹️ More Than Robots #90 June 2025
We must state relationships, not procedures - Grace Hopper AI may be the new Pac-Man relentlessly devouring our world, but there are still some ghosts in the machine and power ups to be found
We must state relationships, not procedures - Grace Hopper
AI may be the new Pac-Man relentlessly devouring our world, but there are still some ghosts in the machine and power ups to be found
📖 Research
The second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing
Globally the health and wellbeing of adolescents is at a tipping point. Progress in adolescent health has lagged well behind the improvements that have been made in the health and development of young children. Also: Rethinking journeys to adulthood
How's Life for Children in the Digital Age?
The influence of contextual factors highlights the need for a nuanced approach to understanding how social media affects adolescent mental health, particularly in groups of children where negative impacts are stronger, like older adolescents, females, and those with pre-existing mental health issues Also: The unseen teen: Social platforms and accountability for addressing adolescent well-being
Confusing Virtual Reality with Reality – an Experimental Study
20% sat on a virtual chair without checking for its real presence
GenAI and the Automation of Fraud
AI-enhanced scams are not merely financial or technological crimes; they also exploit social vulnerabilities
AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
While the prevalence of student-on-student nudify app use in schools is unclear, schools are generally not addressing the risks of nudify apps with students, and some schools that have had a nudify incident have made missteps in their response
Who benefits? Shining a Light on the Business of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Financial sexual extortion has created an economy out of the exploitation of children — and the financial gains not only accrue to the offender.
The Potential for Media Literacy to Combat Misinformation
The growing complexity of media environments suggest that variability in the outcomes of interventions will persist... therefore trying to understand the value of media literacy by predicting specific effects might be a lost cause. Instead, a reorientation toward understanding the main vectors through which variability emerges might be more productive.
Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia: The Big Challenges
Generative AI is developed, built and trained on data provided by white, Western systems of knowledge and information. As such, it perpetuates a limited worldview and may contribute to harmful stereotyping and biased representations Also: Understanding the Impacts of Generative AI Use on Children and Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
Targeting Girls Online How online services enable the abuse and harassment of girls
These design features reflect a broader, systemic flaw in the design of online services. Also: How children report online harm
Digital lifelines: How Wi-Fi Impacts the Lives of Residents in Temporary Accommodation
Parents provided entertainment for children they also went online to communicate with school, access homework portals, parenting information and advice online
🧰 Resources
'Kids as Content'
The toolkit is intended to inform best practice approaches to safeguarding children, who appear as part of social media content
WriteToThem
A website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.
Accessibility guidance for content editors
Everything that you need to create accessible and effective content including guidance on headings, links, images, documents, videos and more
TinyTroupe 🤠🤓🥸🧐
An experimental Python library that simulates tiny people with unique personalities and goals in a virtual environment.
💡Inspiration and opinion
Girls’ voices are needed to tackle misogyny and the manosphere – but they are being ignored
Relying on a TV show that sensationalises misogyny and the manosphere, re-centres masculinity and erases the experiences of those victimised including girls and gender diverse youth
Are tech platforms taking over family life?
Not only are platforms the new infrastructure for society, but they are profoundly individualistic...For the platforms, the user is singular, and shared devices or passwords mess up the digital profiles they construct and monetise. Also: The Platformization of the Family