person
Jonathan Haidt
NYU Stern professor; The Anxious Generation
NYU Stern social psychologist whose 2024 book The Anxious Generation links smartphone-and-social-media exposure to youth mental health declines. Has extended his framework to oppose AI companions for children.
current Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern School of Business
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AI skepticendorses
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues children should not have AI companions and that AI deepens the youth-mental-health crisis his Anxious Generation identifies.
“No children should be having a relationship with AI. If we give our kids AI companions that they can order around and will always flatter them, we are creating people who no one will want to employ or marry.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.