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‘The social contract is broken’: young people on feeling shut out of careers

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In the first instalment of a new series, four young people reveal the impact of an endless cycle of applications and rejectionsGuardian to follow lives of eight young people in their search for jobs“I’ve been demoralised by the process, just constantly applying, then interviewing. I’ve just been applying to any jobs that I could find.

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ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need | Robin Kirman

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What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it’s a reliable sense of their own mindsIn August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode – a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled – a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a

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EU charges TikTok with failing to protect users’ mental health

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Regulator’s initial ruling says algorithm ‘can be harmful’ and led young and vulnerable viewers ‘down rabbit holes they can’t easily escape’Business live – latest updatesTikTok has been charged by the European Commission with failing to protect users’ mental health by exposing them to a relentless stream of content that risks worsening eating disorders and anxiety

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Molly Russell’s father to tell UK cinemagoers: ‘Instagram helped kill my daughter’

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In ad to be shown before The Social Reckoning, Ian Russell will say ‘too little has changed’ since death of Molly, 14The father of Molly Russell will tell UK cinemagoers “Instagram helped kill my daughter” before screenings of a new film about Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire.Speaking in an advert to be shown before The

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Who we become when we talk to machines

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Brian, a middle-aged financial consultant, spends his day sitting in front of three screens. Two of them involve his job. The third features a chatbot, which he has given a woman’s name and frequently uses. Brian spent years on the road for work earlier in his career, has never married, and recently broke up with

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We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar

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I suspect nearly all of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects. We must not entrust tech companies with our long-term healthProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghWhen I was a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford in the early 2000s, I interviewed

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Estimating suicide risk from text

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When people reach out during a mental health crisis, a top priority for counselors is identifying those with a high risk of suicide. The distressed person’s language holds critical clues, and a new tool developed by scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research is designed to pick up on and rapidly evaluate those signals.The

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Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

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Patricia and James Poitras ’63, longtime MIT supporters, have launched a fellowship program for graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their MIT philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists. The commitment establishes 50 two-year fellowships through the Poitras Center for Psychiatric Disorders Research at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Five fellowships will be awarded every

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Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough

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This intimacy economy is tapping into the deepest parts of our intimate psychological infrastructureThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workMichael* is an engineer whose company embraced the AI wave. He enjoys testing ideas with chatbots. However, recently his manager became worried about his judgement

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Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities

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Before Ila Kumar thinks about how to build technology, she asks a different question: What is the context that technology will operate in, and who needs to be involved in the design? For Kumar, meaningful innovation doesn’t result from engineers or designers working in isolation. Instead, she believes the best innovations emerge when the people who

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