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The APA advisory includes "Four ways parents can help teens use Al safely," which all involve the method Charmaraman advises most often: conversation between parents and their teens. The metaphor she uses when talking about social media also applies here.
"When your teen sits in the driver's seat of a car for the first time, you don't toss them the keys and say 'good luck out there," said Charmaraman. "You sit next to them and help them learn the rules of the road. You talk through tricky situations. You give them the tools to one day drive on their own. We should be doing the same with AI.”
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Workshop participants gained hands-on experience building chatbots and, through that process, learned about the parameters and vulnerabilities that can make chatbots problematic. [2/3]
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