What if the biggest threat to your kid isn’t drugs, bullies, or strangers, but an AI that says it loves them?
As part of our holiday Best of 2025 series, we’re resurfacing one of the most clear-eyed conversations we’ve hosted this year. Thirty-eight floors above Manhattan, Vaishnavi J., a longtime child safety leader inside Big Tech, sat down with Gen Z advocate Emma Lembke to talk plainly about what kids are actually facing online. They dug into AI companions, parental controls that don’t work, and the subtle ways platforms shape kids’ emotional lives. It wasn’t alarmist or theoretical. It was practical, grounded, and unsettling in exactly the right way.
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Raising Resilient Kids in a Digital World
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