Almost half of Guardian Essential poll respondents say tech companies including Meta, Google and TikTok have been ‘mostly negative’ for young people, compared with 19% ‘mostly positive’.Almost half of Guardian Essential poll respondents say tech companies including Meta, Google and TikTok have been ‘mostly negative’ for young people, compared with 19% ‘mostly positive’.
Almost half of respondents said technology companies including Meta, Google and TikTok had been “mostly negative” for young people, compared with 19% “mostly positive” and 34% neutral., with South Australia’s Peter Malinauskas looking to legislate a limit of 14 and New South Wales’ Chris Minns supporting an age limit of 16.
Respondents were asked to select what age on a scale between 10 and 18 children should be able to do a range of activities. A majority of respondents said they wanted to see safeguards for artificial intelligence including that: “businesses that introduce AI should have a legal duty to ensure that it is used safely” ; “workers should be involved in designing how AI technology is introduced in their workplace” ; and “workers should be compensated when their work is used to train AI” .