The Parental Controls You Need Now with Bark CMO Titania Jordan

You vetted the app. You checked the settings. You decided it was fine. Then one day an AI chatbot showed up inside it, and nobody sent you a note.Titania Jordan has spent close to two decades in online safety, and she is the first to say parents should not have to keep up with every feature drop. She is the chief parent officer at Bark Technologies and the author of Parental Control: A Guide to Raising Balanced Kids in the Digital Era.A parent can now ask a chatbot to walk them through every parental control setting in the house and get an answer in seconds. The same technology is being misused to generate abuse material from a single photo of a child’s face. Titania says both are true at once.She shares the 3 things she leans on instead of tracking every update, why her strongest recommendation costs nothing, and what she said at dinner when her son asked whether he could escape student loans by moving to another country.I also read a passage from her book out loud and asked whether her thinking has shifted since it published. And for any kid who has decided AI took the career they wanted, her oldest is applying to art school for illustration. Her answer to him is in here. Chapters00:00 The app you approved already changed 00:17 Meet Titania Jordan 01:46 From radio and Facebook groups to online safety 05:56 What Bark actually does 07:00 Why Bark is free for every school in the US 08:28 Easier or harder for parents? Both, because of AI 11:16 You should not have to keep up 12:26 House rules, gatekeeping, and ask to buy 13:20 The relationship is the real parental control 14:15 Sarah reads a passage from Parental Control 15:08 Learning AI side by side at dinner 17:26 What to say to a kid who thinks AI took their future 19:18 Bathtub and bathing suit photos in the deepfake era 20:30 Chatbot mode: the emoji and acronym decoder 22:19 Thoughts on Meta’s new AI assistant 23:59 The one control to turn on today 25:03 Please do not think “not my child” 26:11 Where to find Titania and the book About TitaniaTitania Jordan is the chief parent officer at Bark Technologies and the author of Parental Control and Parenting in a Tech World. She founded the Parenting in a Tech World Facebook group in 2017, now around 700,000 parents strong.Book: on Amazon and wherever books are sold Bark: bark.us Connect with AI-Empowered MomNewsletter: https://www.aiempoweredmom.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiempoweredmom Email: contact@aiempoweredmom.comWhat is the one app you thought you had figured out until it changed? Send it to me. A follow and a rating help other parents and caregivers find the show.