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Birkenbuehl: In-game purchases prepare children for sports betting
“They're thinking of how to use the game to get and buy things inside the game. And it's really training and prepping them for things like sports betting or, you know, going on and, you know, spending money on other platforms.”
Birkenbuehl: Research will prove tech makes people ill, similar to cigarettes
“And we're going to find out the same thing about this technology. It's, we're going to find out that this actually does make people very, very, very sick. And it's starting to show up in our young people.”
Birkenbuehl: Vegas slot machine addiction designers now work for tech companies
“Those people that went into Vegas, I mean, they are in the tech companies. They are there, and they know exactly what they're doing”
Birkenbuehl: US education is based on WWII economics, unprepared for AI
“The process of education is based on World War II supply chain economics, which don't exist right now. And so kids are going through education platforms that are not designed for the future. They're not designed for AI. They're not designed for social media.”
Birkenbuehl: Instagram's child safety protections are fake
“So all these things that Instagram saying we have child, we have protections in place to present. It's not real. And they know it's not real.”
Birkenbuehl: Social media filters will drive young people to plastic surgery
“These screens and these filters are actually changing young people's vision of themselves, which is going to make it very interesting for them as they start to grow up in age. They're going to say, oh my God, what's happening in my skin? Let me go get some wor…”