Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, met a dozen young leaders working in tech safety, policy and innovation with a dozen young leaders at the Sunlight-Lit Hotel Conference Room in Brooklyn on Thursday.
Young adults participated in black circular tables, until he fell down on a table and started talking with them, many were unaware of his appearance.
After making his way through various tables in the room, he took a platform to talk about the hopes and disadvantages of this era of technological progress.
“Thank God that you guys are present, thank God that you are here,” he said. He talked about technical platforms More powerful than governmentsThese social media blanks were built on the basis of the community, yet said that “there is no responsibility to ensure that Security of those online communities,
At one point, he said that instead of security and welfare, there were people in power encouraged by only net profit. “You have knowledge and skills and confidence and bravery and courage to be able to stand for these things,” he said to the crowd.
Yesterday the program was hosted by the responsible Tech Youth Power Fund (RTYPF), One grant initiative To support young organizations working to shape the future of technology. Duke’s foundation, ArchwellWhich he co-established with his wife, Meghan, Duchess of SussexWith names such as Pinterest and Melinda French Gates’s decisive undertakings, the second coast of RTYPF grant was funded.
Techcrunch achieved special access to the event to chat with an average age of about 22 years, among the rapidly changing technical landscapes.
In this program, young people were carefully optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence, but were concerned about their livelihood on social media. These days everything is moving so fast, he said, you can keep faster than the law.
“It is not that youth are anti-technology,” 27-year-old Lidy Burns said, who leads youth and community participation in search of non-profitable. “This is just that we feel that we should have more inputs and seats on the table to talk about how these things affect our life.”
Each turn of every conversation in the incident returned on social media.
It is consuming every part of a young person’s life, yet the clouds have dark color, young people said in this incident.
The 23 -year -old Adam Bilan helps the organization to encoded, which advocates a safe and responsible AI. He has worked on the Tech It Down Act, such as AI -produced porn and other pieces of law, such as, California’s SB53 It wants to establish a wheylore security for employees on issues related to AI. Like other youths at the event, Bilan is working fast to help people in power understand new technology which is rapid innovation.
“Recently two years ago, it was not possible for anyone to make someone’s realistic AI nudes without technical expertise,” he said. On social media platforms, “But today, with the progress in generative AI, publicly available in public, which are being advertised to children.”
He has heard of cases where young people only take pictures of their classmates, are fully dressed, and then upload them on AI image platforms to get realistic gambling of their peers. Doing so is not illegal at the national level, he said, and the railings from Big Tech are loose. On these platforms, he said, it is very easy to see advertisements for equipment to make dark fake porn, which means that it is very easy for children to find it.
Sneha Dave, 26, the founder of the generation patient, an organization that advocates the support of youth with old circumstances is also concerned about the sharp turn that social media has taken. He said that influencers are making advertisements paid for prescription drugs, and teenagers are being given pharmaceutical advertisements on social media.
Talking about Big Tech platforms, Dave said, “We do not know how the FDA works with these companies to ensure that misinformation is not being given to influence the advertisement of these prescription drugs.”
In general, social media has become a mental health crisis, young people told us. 22 -year -old Yole Gulko, working on a film to help people understand the dangers of social media better. She said that these days go through college premises, she hears about many people, who feel helpless in their relationship with the online world, removing their social media accounts.
“Young people should not be left to leave for themselves,” Gulco said. “Youngsters must be given equipment to really succeed online, and it is many of us doing something.”
And they want a seat on the table to help bring changes
21 -year -old Leo Wu remembers the exact moment that inspired him to start his non -profit, AI consensus.
It was returned to widespread when it was returned to 2023. “It was all press from universities and media outlets how it was destroying education,” Wu told Techcrunch. “And we just realized that it was not at all, the attitude of taking.”
So he launched AI consensus, which works with students, technical companies and educational institutions, which students can use AI in school.
“Is it a teenager’s fault to be accustomed to Instagram?” Wu told us, when asked what many youth felt. “Or is it a company fault that is making this technique addictive?”
Wu wants to help students know how to work with AI, while still learning how to think for themselves.
The main way to work to carry forward the regulation was that we were looking at the present people to advocate ourselves. Some, however, were constructing their own organizations, putting the youth at the forefront.
Paragon founder Jennifer Wang said, “I see the youth as a bridge between our present government and the technical future.”
Meanwhile, the Dave of the generation is emphasizing for more cooperation between FDA and FTC. He is also Work to help Pass a bill through Congress to protect patients from online misleading drug advertisements.
Encod’s Bilan said that he is considering supporting bills in various states, which will require a disclosure box, so people know that they are talking to AI and not a human, as well as people like Bills in California, want to ban the minors from using a chatbot. He is watching Character. A decision in that case will be a milestone in shaping the future AI regulation.
In the tech policy space, his company Enkode, along with other people, filed an amicus briefly in support of mother Suing Character.
At one point during the incident, Duke sat next to Wu to talk about AI opportunities and dangers. He talked about the need for more accountability and who had the power to push for change. That solution was clear.
“People in this room,” said Wu.
