As a pediatrician, loss of human connection is the biggest threat to kids, not AI

'The greatest threat to connection may not be technology itself.' 'The greatest threat to connection may not be technology itself.' Amid worries about children's relationship to tech, the solution is often spending more time talking openly with each other We have become obsessed with the idea that screens are destroying human connection. The evidence seems to be everywhere. Each week headlines warn of teenagers addicted to phones, a loneliness epidemic and the dangers of AI . The release of The Social Reckoning has leads us to ask, "How bad those guys at Meta?" and then ultimately wonder, " if I still use Instagram?"