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- Tom Siegel, former Google trust-and-safety VP, became Youth AI Safety Institute director at Common Sense Media.
- Siegel warned that AI development poses greater risks to children than previous social-media harms.
- He said industry cannot protect kids without external regulation and will create independent safety standards like car-crash testing.
- Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation are backing the Youth AI Safety Institute.
- Siegel proposes age-verification and toggles for AI features as immediate protective steps.