Following Australia's lead, New Zealand's National Party wants to ban social media for teens. But with VPN workarounds, ignored youth voices, and addictively engineered feeds impacting everyone from teens to seniors, a blanket ban targets the users instead of the real culprit. Here is why targeting algorithms and investing in real-world third spaces is a far better path forward.

OpenAI's new Teen Mode promises stronger parental controls, study-focused learning, and additional safeguards for young users. As a teenager, I welcome these changes, but I also wonder whether they come too late.

One in five young people now turn to AI for mental health advice. This piece asks not whether it's accurate, but why we reach for it at all.

Youth were finally at the table at the UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance. But inclusion in the room isn't the same as shaping what the room decides.