Protecting Children From the Hidden Risks of Artificial Intelligence

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning, Lynn’s Warriors, Lynn Shaw, helping our kids. Well, Lynn, what are we doing this week to help our kids?

0:10 Speaker 2 John, sound the alarm, but first of all, thank you for always coming. featuring me on the Cats Roundtable. Look, we have something today that every parent and grandparent in America needs to understand. Meta, M-E-T-A, that is Facebook and Instagram.

0:24 They’ve introduced a new artificial intelligence agent called Muse, M-U-S-E. Now, when you think of Muse, you think of something that inspires creativity. inspire somebody to make something. Well, Muse, they’ve given it an adorable little mascot, cartoon character, looks like a puffy marshmallow, and they’ve called it Jolly, and it looks very innocent, it looks cuddly, and it looks like

0:51 something you might find, John, in your child’s bedroom. But behind the friendly face, and this is where we sound the alarm, is this extraordinarily powerful technology that can remember information, Interact with all your applications. Manage all your tasks and your take actions on your behalf. I want to point out, this is not created for children, John. This is created

1:12 for adults. But because it looks so cute, they say their user manual says for 18 and over. But there’s no way to verify, so it looks so cute and appetizing. People are going to think it’s for the kids, and the kids are going to want it because it looks like a cartoon character. So we’re talking, John, about chatbots.

1:28 This is technology increasingly capable of participating, taking more of our information of our personal lives. And remember, with a child, anything it takes, that will follow that child for their entire life. But here’s what this muse, this little jolly character does. It will say to you, I’ll do your grocery shopping for you. Download your credit card. I’ll do

1:51 your child’s homework for you. Give me their information. I’ll pay your mortgage for you. Give me your information. Now, John, do you find a problem with all of that?

1:59 Speaker 1 That’s a serious, serious problem. What is the company that’s sponsoring that?

2:04 Speaker 2 Meta, which is Facebook and Instagram. Remember, when Facebook and Instagram, when Mark Zuckerberg started getting, you know, all these lawsuits coming at him for product liability, it was bizarre. Remember, we had all the whistleblowers come forward. Last week, we talked about the new movie, The Social Reckoning. When all of these internal memos came forward, three days after Francis Haugen,

2:23 the whistleblower, came forward in 2021, he changed the name of Facebook. It used to be called Facebook. The company name is Meta now, M-E-T-A. He has created this. But I ask you, it’s designed to look like a little child’s cartoon, but again, it says that it’s for adults.

2:41 You just check off a box. Yes, I’m 18. So, look, we believe in we are pro-innovation, pro-technology. But, John, it can never come at the expense of children’s safety because what’s happening with the kids? We already know the damage.

2:54 We already have the proof from social media, the harms. What happens when children develop these unhealthy relationships with digital platforms? And now on top of it, well, everybody’s excited.

3:03 Speaker 1 That is very, very dangerous, and everybody should be aware. And not that we want to stop technology, not that we want to stop AI or SI or whatever they want to call it, but we have to be careful for our kids. And I want to thank you so much.

3:21 Thank you for bringing it to everybody’s attention. And everybody within the sound of our voice that hears what we just talked about, I think everybody has kids and grandkids. Well, think about it and worry about it.

3:37 Speaker 2 That’s it. Meta from you. It’s lynchwarriors.org. Thank you, John. Thank you.