Guest Speaker on AI Literacy and Cybersafety for Kids: Dr. Linda Charmaraman

Such a pleasure to host a private talk / coffee hour featuring Linda Charmaraman today in Bangkok at Hotel Indigo, where she shared her work on empowering teens in the Boston area to explore AI ethics by creating AIs through prompt engineering and values-based design exercises.

We also heard from university administrators from Dhurakij Pundit University and Chulalongkorn University; international school teachers and parents’ coalitions (SPARKIT); private edtech corporations (LEARN Corporation); inclusive tech advocates (Vulcan Coalition); and NGO leaders (EDiversity) about what responsible AI application is looking like within their particular spheres, including what’s going right with AI ethics right now and what needs some more work.

One of the main agreements coming out of the discussion was that it’s the adults in the room who need more training when it comes to AI, and that flipping the script by co-creating AI guidelines with youth (& beneficiaries) and incorporating them into the design of AI policies within education settings is the most effective and long-term solution.

Attendees also took home a virtual gift bag including complimentary first-access to our newest digital parenting tools:

❤️ [Beta] Alice, our proprietary Digital Parenting Coach (developed with AI infrastructure consultant Dan Stein / DJ Fresh)
🩺 Digital Wellbeing Diagnostic Test for Families & Parents

Thanks Linda for allowing us to co-opt your vacation time to spread your digital wellbeing gospel; and thanks to the attendees (some of who hailed from as far away as Hong Kong and Kanchanaburi!) for taking the time to put your heads together on this important topic.