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This panel focuses on the health impacts of technology use and AI. Panel speakers include an MD endocrinologist, the parent of an adolescent who lost their life to online abuse, and a Georgetown faculty medical anthropologist and complex systems scientist.
Dr. Gupta will review data showing that excessive technology use can alter the brain. Physiological changes include reduced activity, obesity, sleep disruption, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. These effects may inform addictive behaviors and low thresholds of accountability and communal care, informing morbidity and mortality of adolescents and adults. Becca Schmill lost her life to online abuse. Her mother works tirelessly on policy initiatives to protect children and teens from online harms. Dr. Rioux will explore the five-layered health impacts of tech and AI: individual, family, community, society, and planet. These impacts are interdependent and reinforced by design features that create screen-time feedback loops, social isolation, cognitive diminishment, and the marginalization of vulnerable epistemologies.
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2026-04-09 18:00
2026-04-09 19:30
America/New_York
The Health Costs of Tech Use and AI: People, Society, Planet
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RSVP
This panel focuses on the health impacts of technology use and AI. Panel speakers include an MD endocrinologist, the parent of an adolescent who lost their life to online abuse, and a Georgetown faculty medical anthropologist and complex systems scientist.
Dr. Gupta will review data showing that excessive technology use can alter the brain. Physiological changes include reduced activity, obesity, sleep disruption, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. These effects may inform addictive behaviors and low thresholds of accountability and communal care, informing morbidity and mortality of adolescents and adults. Becca Schmill lost her life to online abuse. Her mother works tirelessly on policy initiatives to protect children and teens from online harms. Dr. Rioux will explore the five-layered health impacts of tech and AI: individual, family, community, society, and planet. These impacts are interdependent and reinforced by design features that create screen-time feedback loops, social isolation, cognitive diminishment, and the marginalization of vulnerable epistemologies.
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This event is entirely virtual.
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