After Babel

Professor at NYU-Stern

Data Scientist & Moral Psychologist. Now @ http://PsychOfTech.org + USC Neely Center. Former Civic Integrity/AI/Newsfeed @ Facebook, Cofounder @ Ranker/CivilPolitics. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7vzqWBYAAAAJ&hl=en

Author of 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World (2025), iGen (2017), and Generations (2023, paperback 2025) and professor of psychology at San Diego State University.

Senior Research Scientist at NYU Stern. Lead Researcher for the New York Times Bestseller, The Anxious Generation. Managing Director of the Tech and Society Lab at NYU Stern. Editor of the After Babel Substack.

Seth D. Kaplan, a Professorial Lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of Fragile Neighborhoods.

Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and has a PhD in Sociology from McGill University

Actress and campaigner against screens for children

Nathan Witkin is a Research Scientist studying AI and Social Media at NYU Stern's Tech and Society Lab. He writes about philosophy, politics, and technology at his Substack, Arachne.

Michael Toscano is Director of the Family First Technology Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, co-founder of the Faith Family Technology Network, and a member of the Policy Council for the Alliance for a Better Future.

Emma Park is a Research Associate under Dr. Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch at NYU. She is currently pursuing a B.A. in Psychology at Stanford University.

LGBTQ+ advocate, digital native, and strategist. From Dance Moms to tech reform, I write about visibility, palatability, and bleeding quietly in rooms not built for us.

I will not stay on topic.

I spent 12 years trying to make technology safer for children. It wasn't enough. President/CSO of Heat Initiative. Mother of three. Children and Machines is where I work through what I've learned, and what I'm still figuring out.

Professor of Media Sociology and Director of the "Digital Transformation and Wellbeing Lab" at the University of Milano-Bicocca. President of the "Patti Digitali" (Digital Pacts) Foundation.

Professor of Sociology, University of Brescia (Italy)

Senior Research Scientist of the Tech & Society Lab at NYU Stern. Quantitative researcher with a background spanning econometrics, educational measurement, and psychometrics at Cambridge, and energy economics in Oxford.