what's the reason banning minors? Is AI bad for mental health?

I simply don't understand how you can ask that question unless you fall into one of these categories:

  1. You live in a place with no access to any news source whatsoever.  No newspapers.  No television.  No radio.  No internet.
  2. You're a child under the age of six.
  3. You're an LLM.

Every day or two there is another story posted on HN about the harmful effects of AI on minors. The level of willful ignorance here makes be thing the answer is #3.

▲ matheusmoreira 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Evidence of risk is not sufficient. It must always be balanced against potential benefits.

Children are being unconditionally banned from using major technologies, preventing them from benefiting at all. My life would have turned out very differently if I had been banned from using computers back when I was a kid. I don't want my own kids to grow up without the same freedom I enjoyed.

	▲	sodapopcan 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I feel I would be in a much better place if I had been banned from using computers as a kid. It's all relative.

▲ fn-mote 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> harmful effects of AI on minors

Which is dwarfed by the harmful effects of social media (engagement farming).

Frankly, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I think the articles you are talking about haven’t even been interesting enough to click on.

▲ jawilson2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Every day there is another story about the harmful effects of AI on literally everything, including mental health, IP theft, the climate, etc. "Think of the children" is and always has been a weak excuse.