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AI and social media bans won’t make California kids safer online. It may even be harmful

Banning children's access to digital technologies sounds protective, but the evidence so far mostly suggests it is not. Gillian Hayes is a professor and computer scientist at the UC Irvine where she co-directs the CERES Center for Children and the Digital World.

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