Policy, Research and Advocacy

Laws and industry practices around AI are changing fast. These organizations are researching the risks, holding tech companies accountable and working with lawmakers to protect young people.

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AI safety and accountability

• Center for Humane Technology: A nonprofit working to ensure that AI and social media serve people rather than exploit them.
• Transparency Coalition: Helps lawmakers and parents protect kids and teens from the harms of generative AI, including model state legislation.
• Future of Life Institute: A nonprofit working to reduce large-scale risks from powerful technologies, especially advanced AI.
• Tech Oversight Project: Advocacy to hold the largest tech companies accountable.
• Accountable Tech: Campaigns for rules that curb the harms of big tech business models.
• Center for Countering Digital Hate: Research exposing online harms, including how AI chatbots respond to vulnerable teens.
• Project Liberty: Working toward an internet where people have more control over their data and digital lives.

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Kids' online safety

• Fairplay: Works to end marketing to children and runs the Screen Time Action Network for practitioners, educators and parents.
• The Anxious Generation: The movement that grew from Jonathan Haidt's book, promoting four new norms for a healthier childhood.
• Heat Initiative: Presses tech companies to detect and remove child sexual abuse material from their platforms.
• Organization for Social Media Safety: A consumer protection organization focused on safety on social media.
• Protect Young Eyes: Digital safety education for families, schools and churches.
• Institute for Families and Technology: A bipartisan institute that publishes the free Families & Tech Digest on policy and news.

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Research

• Children and Screens: Funds and shares research on how digital media affects child development, with free webinars for parents.
• Brookings Institution: Nonpartisan research and policy strategies, including the AI and education report featured in the film.

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Related causes

• Eating Disorders Coalition: Advocates for federal policy on eating disorder prevention and treatment.

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