Why tech parents restrict kids' screens while building AI agents
tech workers increasingly restrict their children's screen time despite building the ai products that permeate their lives, highlighting a growing disconnect between industry creation and personal consumption.
parents in the tech industry are notably removing ipads, social media, and smartphones from their children's lives to protect them from cyberbullying, algorithmic feeds, and body dysmorphia, despite building the infrastructure for these technologies. the article notes that even mark zuckerberg avoids publicly posting his children's faces, and countries like australia are enacting bans for users under 16. this 'tech-lash' suggests a fundamental anxiety among developers about the long-term cognitive effects of the very systems they are architecting. as ai agents become the new interface, this gap between the creators and the consumers of technology will likely dictate future safety standards and educational integration.