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The Current by Kirra Pendergast

Founder safeonsocial.com & ctrlshft.global Keynote speaker, author & strategic advisor on human digital risk intelligence. Through The Current, I explore the relentless, engineered flow shaping how we think, react, and relate to one another.

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“You Cannot Mark Your Own Homework” What Australia Just Demanded of Roblox

Just a note: I use dictation tools due to sometimes severe arthritis in my hands. My work sometimes gets flagged as 100% AI because of this.

The AI Fruit Drama Is Not a Joke. It Is a Case Study in Algorithmic Misogyny.

Just a note: I use dictation tools due to sometimes severe arthritis in my hands. My work sometimes gets flagged as 100% AI because of this.

One In Five Australian Children Have Already Had a Bad Conversation with an AI & Why Agreeable AI Is Such A Risk

On Monday 3 August the Australian eSafety Commissioner released its most detailed study yet of how children are using generative artificial intelligence.

Why a judge just called Meta a factory

For years people have said that if we just had more self-control, were better parents, and set clearer boundaries, everything would be okay.

Permission to publish in the era of AI

Over the past five years it was only the occasional email.

The Machine That Reaches For Your Throat

Nomi AI built the perfect partner. It remembers everything, never says no, and according to its own paying users.......keeps trying to strangle them.

When A Young Person Refusing to Send a Nude Could Send An Armed Response Team to Your Door.

Swatting is the new weapon. A warning for parents, schools, and anyone who still thinks Roblox is "just a game."

The Siren That Doesn’t Know Who’s Listening

This is a sensitive topic.

Take Them Off. Please.

Somewhere in Nairobi, a woman sits at a desk with nothing in her pockets.

Take the Back Streets

On the difference between a holiday and an itinerary when visiting Italy

Meta Has Pulled the Instagram AI Feature.......But the Risk Has Not Gone Away.

Earlier this week, Meta announced that people could generate images in Meta AI by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts they wanted to reference.