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now. ♪♪ today is wednesday, march 20th. breaking news, holding steady, the federal reserve votes to keep interest rates as they are. what's driving this decision, and what it means for your bottom line. plus, border whiplash, first it was blocked, then it was cleared, and now a controversial texas immigration law is back on hold again. the arguments taking place inside a federal courtroom today. royal secret, staff at the facility where princess kate underwent surgery now accused of trying to breach her medical records. how kensington palace is reacting. keeping it real, eight in ten children report interacting with artificial intelligence every single day. we're going to talk about the steps that all parents can take right now to help keep their kids safe. we begin this hour with breaking news involving your money. america's central bank, the federal reserve has announced it will not raise interest rates today. this is the fifth straight fed meeting where rates have not been raised.

america's central bank did, however, signal multiple rate cuts could be coming in the future. leading us off this hour, brian cheung. i'd say this sounds like good news, especially if we're anticipating cuts. >> this is not a surprise at all, but yeah, the federal reserve reiterating that they could see interest rate cuts happening later on this year. might be welcome news to many americans that have been wondering since the fed began raising interest rates in 2022 whether or not they would get relief on the mortgage rates, on the credit card borrowing rates, on the car loan rates we've seen jump as an indirect result of what the federal reserve was doing. the federal reserve is saying we're not going to say exactly when we're going to cut interest rates. that's because they want to see the progression of inflation. that's the reason why they made interest rates so high. they said until they see better progress towards that 2% inflation rate that they want to have, they're not going to cut interest rates. 3.2% is where we're at right

now. 2% is where they want to be. >> that elusive 2% in the interim, what does that mean for everyday people who have credit card debt, who are looking at buying a home or even just want to get a loan. >> again, they're not cutting interest rates yet. those borrowing costs are going to remain elevated on mortgage rates, credit card debt. we've seen recent inflation reports kind of going sideways. it hasn't gotten close to the 2%. jay powell saying in a press conference that he feels like the state of inflation still remains largely status quo. take a listen. >> i take the two of them together, and i think they haven't really changed the overall story, which is that of inflation moving down gradually on a sometimes bumpy road towards 2%. i don't think that story has changed. i also don't think that those readings added to anyone's confidence that we're moving closer to that point. >> so bumpy road, that refers to the two inflation reports that he was referring to at the top where we've just been kind of

going sideways between 3 and 4%. got to get close to the 2%. that's when americans might feel a little bit more of that change at the store when they go and buy things. we appreciate you. now to the legal back and forth over a texas immigration law. it's the one that would allow local police to arrest migrants suspected of entering the country illegally. now, arguments on the law were held in federal court, and a lot has happened over the last few days. basically here's the time line. on monday the supreme court said it was blocking that law indefinitely. yesterday the high court allowed texas to enforce it. then the law was blocked again. that happened by a federal appeals court just late last night. now, that appeals court also heard today's arguments. nbc news correspondent david noriega is near the border in eagle pass, texas. david, the bottom line is that the law is essentially on hold right now. so what are the arguments that we heard in court today? what were they saying? >> reporter: morgan, it has been a roller coaster the last few

days, the arguments that we heard that a fifth circuit panel heard this morning basically have to do with whether the law should be allowed to go into effect while the substance of the constitutional case against it works its way through the courts. on the one hand you had the biden administration arguing that the whole of the law is unconstitutional because it infringes on the federal government's sole authority to enforce immigration law. you also had texas on the other side arguing that at least parts of the law should be allowed to go into effect because they only mirror existing federal law, rather than contradicting it in any way. one thing that really stood out to me from the hearing this morning was the fact that the lawyer representing texas could not answer a number of questions about very sort of basic, core ways in which this law would actually -- would actually work were it to go into effect on the ground. morgan. >> and david, there's a lot of our viewers, you know, to follow here. this is a lot of back and forth, a lot of legal ping-pong, but in the midst of all that ping-pong, you have these law enforcement

officials who were on the ground trying to figure out what the scope of their actual day-to-day job is. what do they have permission to do. what do they do not do legally. how do they react to this stop and start from the courts? >> reporter: right, so if it were to go into effect, likely the sort of front line law enforcement officers who would be arrests people would be the texas department of public safety who have been working closely with the governor on implementing operation lone star, which is the program abbott has been arresting migrants crossing the rio grande under existing state trespassing statutes. as far as dps is concerned, that's relatively clear. there's local police departments, there's sheriff's offices. nbc news has spoken to a couple of county sheriffs on the border who say they have no idea what the expectation would be as far as their departments role in enforcing or not enforcing this law. and it's not -- that uncertainty

is not just limited to law enforcement. i spoke to someone who runs a program that provides pro bono legal criminal defense to those people arrested under operation lone star and would provide similar defense to people arrested under sb4 were the law to go into effect. >> if we start to see individuals ordered to return to mexico, that is going to be extremely chaotic. once they're out of the court system and they're turned over to state law enforcement and then potentially across the bridge back into mexico, we won't have eyes on them. we won't know what will happen to them. >> so in every respect of this law, but particularly that deportation provision that allows state judges to order people removed back to mexico, truly if this law were to go into effect, we would be in uncharted territory. morgan. >> david noriega for us, thanks. staying in politics, house

republicans are hoping to chart a course forward in their impeachment inquiry against president biden. in a hearing today, they questioned former business partners of his son hunter who last week rejected a request to testify publicly. democrats for their part invited lev parnas to testify. now, you may remember that name because he worked closely with former trump attorney rudy giuliani to find damaging information about mr. biden. joining me now is nbc news congressional correspondent julie tsirkin joining us from her post. what was the big takeaway from from's hearing. >> reporter: we didn't learn anything new today, bobulinski was a former associate of hunter biden, but he only joined that team in 2017. this was after president biden was out of office as vice president, of course, well before he became president again, so certainly this is the republican's tar witness. he had pointed perhaps to hunter biden using his father's name to get influence but not really the other way around, failing to

make that connection. and of course this impeachment inquiry is not into hunter biden. it is into the president and republicans have so far failed to connect those two issues. i do want you to take a listen to something that lev parnas had to say. he was someone who was an associate of rudy giuliani. he really began his remarks by saying that it is not biden who did any kind of foreign influence peddling, it is former president trump who benefitted off of that. take a listen. >> i found precisely zero evidence of the biden's corruption in ukraine. the only information ever pushed on the bidens in ukraine has come from one source and one source only, russia and russian agents. the impeachment proceedings that bring us here now are predicated on false information spread by the kremlin. >> reporter: so parnas here essentially saying that the former president wanted to dig up dirt into biden and the biden family because of russian disinformation. >> you know, julie, what's next sort of in this impeachment

inquiry? do republicans believe that they ultimately do have a path forward here? >> reporter: no, certainly support is wavering for this impeachment inquiry. remember, this something that was pretty much unilaterally launched by kevin mccarthy when he was trying to hold onto the gavel last fall. now you're at a stage where they have formalized this inquiry, every single hearing they have, every witness they have seems to not shape up and not make this connection of evidence that they are so looking for, but that being said, they're kind of stuck here. they can't necessarily vote nar way out of it. they don't have the vote to formalize anything past what they already have, and they don't have any evidence connecting president joe biden to any wrongdoing that his son may have had. >> all right, julie tsirki joining us live from capitol hill. as always, excellent reporting. the biden administration is pushing for -- kate rogers joins us now. >> good to see you. the environmental protection agency issued new rules today to

curb carbon emissions from vehicles, in a push toward evs and hybrid, the new rule says as long as 56% of new vehicles sold are electric by 2032, the auto industry could meet its carbon emission limits. the epa says the rule will avoid over 7 billion tons of emissions over the next three decades. the u.s. is warning that foreign hackers are targeting water and sewage systems across the country. in the letter to state governors, the administration warned the attacks were perpetrated by chinese and iranian hackers in particular. psycher security professionals have singled out water and sewage plants as targets because of the critical service they provide and their lack of adequate defenses. fans of dungeons and dragons will be able to re-create it with bricks. lego opened an ideas challenge for fans to submit designs. the 4,000 piece set will be available for sale next month. sounds like a lot of fun. >> a lot of fun with those legos especially, kate rogers, thanks

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claims of a security breach involving kate's medical records. nbc news international correspondent molly hunter has more. >> reporter: that's right, the headlines just keep coming, and today a new allegation that there was a security breach, which is major issue at the hospital of the london clinic that kate received her operation at back in january. another day of headlines about kate, the princess of wales, and a serious allegation, the mirror breaking the news that staff at the london clinic allegedly tried to access her medical records from her january operation. a uk privacy watchdog confirming to nbc news it received a breach report and now investigating it. kensington palace saying this is a matter for the london clinic. >> this is quite a serious breach, even if it's someone who is just feeling a little bit nosey, they should not have been able to access her records. the princess of wales has made it clear how much she wants to keep her privacy. >> reporter: meanwhile, prince

william carrying on and for the second time in as many weeks mentioning kate. but the scrutiny continues as photo agencies review past handout photos from the royal family. the getty photo agency and reuters calling into question numerous digital inconsistencies in this photo taken by kate in august of 2022. while the publication of that tmz video showing kate and william reportedly walking out of a windsor farm shop this weekend provided reassurance for many, it gave rise to another cycle of wild conspiracy theories. >> i don't know, y'all, this is honestly getting really, really weird. what do we think? >> it's kate, okay? it is kate. >> this is getting weirdly suspicious. this feels like right out of a tv show. >> reporter: a windsor neighbor and professional cricket player, kevin pietersep posting, the conspiracy theories are absolutely absurd.

we w and k every day. >> there's still questions swirling. >>silent, it leaves a vacuum for people to ask more questions and speculate. at this point, the only way out for the royal family is full transparency. people need to see kate middleton and understand that they are getting the truth from the royal family. >> meanwhile, we saw king charles driving by buckingham palace twice yesterday carrying out official duties even as he undergoes cancer treatment, subscriing it his mother's mantra you have to be seen to be believed. minutes ago we got a statement from the london clinic. it says there's no place at our hospital for those who intentionally breach the trust of any of our patients or colleagues. secretary of state antony blinken will travel to israel later this week adding a stop to his current visit to the middle east. this is his sixth visit to the region since the war between israel and hamas began in october, and all of this comes amid increasing tension between

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the biden administration. this all over a potential ground offensive in rafah. nbc news international correspondent matt bradley joins me now. prime minister netanyahu addressed the senate republican caucus remotely today. do we know anything about what he said and really how this sort of came about? >> yeah, we don't really know the details. this was a regular gop luncheon that was being held, and he just kind of wired himself in directly and spoke over video. so we haven't really heard exactly what was said, but the fact that it took place at all is a clear signal of a rift that's been growing for months between the biden administration and democrats in congress and benjamin netanyahu and his administration in israel. it didn't help that chuck schumer, the senate majority leader criticized netanyahu's war in the gaza strip and urged israel to hold new elections, presumably to replace the prime minister. this speech comes today at the invitation of john barrasso, he's a republican of wisconsin, and according to "punchbowl news," netanyahu had actually

asked to address democrats, but schumer rejected it saying that the style of addressing different caucuses was being done in too partisan a manner. normally the president of the united states runs american's foreign diplomacy and policy, and he deals directly with his or her counterparts. lawmakers don't typically intervene in this way, but this isn't the first time. back in 2015, netanyahu addressed congress, the invitation of republicans, and this infuriated biden's former boss, barack obama. he was the president at the time, and the topic at the time was about iran and the white house said that the invitation to netanyahu was a breach of typical protocol. we may be about to see history repeating itself again nearly a decade later because house speaker mike johnson is reportedly thinking about inviting netanyahu to address congress again. >> the white house urged netanyahu to set a delegation to washington before any israeli ground offensive in rafah, and you mentioned this growing rift. do we have any details about that? >> yeah, well, we've heard that the israelis, they are going to

be sending a delegation to washington talking about that rafah invasion, which has been a real point of contention between biden and his colleagues in the senate, and benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of israel, but in the meantime, this invasion of rafah, where there's some 1.5 million palestinians who are thought to be taking ref ewe from fighting elsewhere in the gaza center. this invasion is looming and netanyahu has agreed to the israeli military's plans for the operation, that would see civilians presumably moved elsewhere in the gaza strip. but the biden administration has called the plans a mistake. >> all right, matt bradley reporting live from london, thank you so much. and speaking of international news, if youe international news, if youe 'r my late father-in-law lit up a room, but his vision dimmed with age. he had amd. i didn't know it then, but it can progress to ga, an advanced form of the disease. his struggle with vision loss from amd made me want to help you see warning signs of ga, like:

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capacity magazines and other microcameras. he is facing child porn charges. installment of a hidden surveillance camera with audio and other charges also. we will have more in the afternoon newscast. a san francisco neighborhood grieves. ginger conejero saab tells us how this crash has impacted so many. >> reporter: the 78-year-old driver has been arrested in connection to this crash. her attorney says she has been cooperating. the statement reads that they join the community in mourning the loss of life that occurred in west portal. the neighborhood and community continue to grieve the loss of the three victims killed. we know it was a mother, father and their 1-year-old toddler. the san francisco medical examiner is identifying the

victims as 40-year-old diego and mathilda and their 1-year-old. the other child is in life-threatening condition. the brazilian consulate confirmed the father was a brazilian citizen. they were living in san francisco. they were waiting at a bus stop when a car hit them. it has grown into a memorial with stuffed animals pictures and flowers for the victims. >> it hits home. shows you how life is very precious. >> it's so sad. a family. all at once. >> reporter: the board of directors addressing the tragedy last night. the chair of the board asking the public not to rush to judgment during an emotional time. the investigation into this continues as does the processing of such a tragic loss.

in san francisco, ginger conejero saab, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. here are other stories. a possible measles exposure. police have identified the two men they say are responsible for a burglary and deadly wrong-way crash in the east bay. yesterday morning, thieves drove a truck into a tobacco outlet store. they store thousands of dollars in products. when police spotted the car, they chased it on to i-80 toward the toll plaza. when it approaches the 580 connector, police say the truck made a u-turn on the freeway and started driving the wrong way. they crashed into two cars, killing an innocent driver. both patrick shekels and andre multep are facing charges. march 9th, between 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at sons of liberty

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investigating a bomb threat against baseball star show hay otah nay. the threat was directed toward the 18,000 seat stadium where the dodgers played today against the san diego padres. police say they found no sign of a bomb and the game went on without any issue. the dodgers won 5-2. for the first time ever the u.s. did not rank in the top 20 of the world's happiest countries. the annual world happiness report ranked over 140 different countries and finland remains at the top of that list for the seventh year in a row. pretty cool. the u.s. unfortunately was bumped from number 15 to number 23. the list says that the overall ranking fell due to a significant decline in the well being of americans under the age of 30. bruce springsteen and the e street band are back on tour. they returned to the stage in phoenix, arizona, last night and the tour was postponed last fall while the 74-year-old musician recovers from health issues. despite those challenges, the boss didn't miss a beat playing

a 29 song set list that clocked in at just under three hours. american fitness icon richard simmons is opening up about his skin cancer diagnosis. simmons rose to fame back in the 1970s and the '80s for his line of aerobics videos. this update comes just days after simmons shocked fans with a cryptic post saying he was dying. nbc news correspondent maura barrett has been following this story for us and joins me now. what do you know about richard simmons' condition currently and particularly the type of skin cancer he has. >> now we know richard simmons is cancer free, he says, and is healthy, but he caused a lot of o'concern and confusion when he posted on monday that tweet that you showed, and basically saying he wanted to later -- he back talked it later saying he wanted to send out an inspirational message, he wanted to encourage everyone to live life to the fullest after he had this scare. he said he was dying, he came

back out later saying i'm not dying. he described it being this tumultuous diagnosis. one of the things he posted on social media was the moment that he found out. he went in to the doctor, and we have a pull of this post as well. he said he was getting a little nervous when they found a bump on his face, they said the c word, you have cancer. i asked what kind of cancer, and he said basil cell carcinoma. he responded to the doctor saying stop calling me silly names. he did treat it seriously. he did say it took three times to go in and get the cancer cells out. we don't know when all of this unfolded. he did just post on social media earlier this week and so we do know from what he has posted that he is cancer free now, but really wanting to evoke to his fans and followers that life should be lived to the fullest and to enjoy every day. hug those that love them, really

send out that inspirational message that came from a cancer diagnosis. >> this is also interesting because i think one of the reasons it caught so many people's attention was because simmons has been largely out of the public eye and that sort of in and of itself raised a lot of questions. so remind us why there's been so much speculation about his whereabouts in general. >> there's been a lot of rumors. he hasn't been seen in public in years, almost a decade for the most part. there's been rumors about whether he was being held hostage in his own home, if his housekeeper was involved. there was a phone interview he did with our colleagues at the "today" show a few years ago. he said i'm fine, i'm just am taking time for myself, i wanted to be a loan loner for a little bit. to come out so suddenly on social media with a proclamation such as i am dying, it was very shocking for people who have been waiting. he said he would come back stronger than ever, and that hasn't exactly happened yet. but he has been communicative on

social media. this was very shocking, very jarring. obviously good news now that we know the details of the diagnosis, that it was a very common -- it is a very common skin cancer and it was caught early. they treated it and he is doing well now. his spokesperson confirmed that as well. >> we are glad to hear that. our thanks to maura barrett, thank you so much. four years ago this month, kids across the country, they transitioned to remote learning because of the covid-19 pandemic. and the goal was ultimately to keep students safe without decreasing the quality of their education. now new research shows there are still consequences from those very school closures. nbc news now anchor hallie jackson breaks down the effects of remote learning. >> officials from red states -- >> this state will have an extended spring break. >> reporter: to blue. >> something i could not in a million years have imagined having to do. >> reporter: all making the same hard choice, shutting down schools to stop the spread of at the time an unknown and deadly virus. >> 3,000 deaths already nationwide.

>> reporter: the science behind the consequences not exactly certain. >> i don't have a good explanation or solution to the problem of what happens when you close schools and it triggers a cascade of events. >> reporter: new research finding what does happen, the shutdowns coming at a steep cost to students. >> what we're seeing is that the pandemic is really acting as a compounding debt. it's keeping kids from being able to progress as they enter new levels within the education system, at the typical rates we would expect. >> reporter: start with the learning loss, a study led by researchers at harvard and stanford found school districts that spent most of the 2020 to 2021 school year remote saw students fall half a grade behind in math on average, more than districts that spent most of the year in person. lower income students ended up hurt the most, whether they went back to school sooner or stayed mostly at home that year. politics also playing a role, republican-led states reopening faster than those run by democrats. some of those red state

governors like ron desantis argued his way worked. some democrats and teachers' unions standing by their approach. we knew we had to be in school. we just wanted to be safe. >> >> reporter: the question is did closures slow covid down. data we have shows people under 20 were half as likely to catch covid but not necessarily less likely to spread it. the impact on stopping the spread depends on the school. >> by the summer of 2020, we did have some data from primarily from europe showing that kids could be safely in school, but again, circumstances, some schools were able to do that. other schools could not do it. >> reporter: but the academic damage is done, and even now national test scores from spring 2023 show students third through 8th grade overall have not rebounded from what they lost in math. experts say districts need to boost funding for tutoring or summer school to get those numbers back up. >> the problem that we're seeing is that the dosage of the

treatment does not match the scale of the crisis. without those interventions, i think we will have no hope of getting kids out of this hole. >> reporter: while the next major health crisis will probably have a whole new set of challenges, some argue there are valuable lessons learned. >> we can't take the lessons specifically from covid and say what we learned there is exactly going to apply. but what we can do is build resiliency in our school system so that they are able to withstand this potential needing to stay open. >> reporter: hallie jackson, nbc news. technology giant intel is getting nearly $20 billion from the biden administration to boost computer chip production right here in the united states. now, president biden announced the big investment during a visit to the company's campus in arizona today. that funding will be used to build and expand plans in four different states. msnbc correspondent megan costello joins us now from washington, d.c. megan, it's good to see you this wednesday. can you first just sort of take us through the details of this particular agreement?

>> absolutely. so this is a three-part agreement really for intel. we're going to see $8.5 billion in direct grants to the company up to $11 billion in federal loans, and the company's also going to be tapping a 25% investment tax credit from the treasury department that was also part of the chips act and that allows them to take that 25% back on all of their qualifying capital expenditures on things like buildings and facilities. in exchange, intel is going to invest $100 billion over the next five years they say across plans and other places in america. they say they'll be creating 30,000 jobs directly in construction and manufacturing and tens of thousands of jobs will be supported indirectly. they're also agreeing to terms on net zero emissions and work force development and that sort of thing. so president biden has been out there. he's really been marveling over this technology today celebrating intel's role in it. and he says this is really going to bring the future of manufacturing back to america. now listen to this. >> even though we invented the

most advanced chips, we make 0% of them today. 0% of the most advanced chips today. all manufacturing of leading edge chips across the entire industry moved overseas to asia years ago. that's why today's investment is such a big deal. >> reporter: biden says this is the first time in 40 years that we'll be building this type of advanced manufacturing in america. morgan. >> all right, megan, thanks so much. we appreciate it. american farmers have lost nearly $70 billion in profit just over the past two years, according to the u.s. department of agriculture. the agency's chief scientist says this is largely a result of extreme weather. nbc news national climate reporter chase cain takes a closer look at how this impacts what you pay at the grocery store. >> you can see it in the fast early bloom of d.c.'s iconic cherry blossoms, and you can feel it bringing prices at the grocery store up 25% in four years.

>> they're ridiculously high. >> human-caused climate change is throwing off nature's cycles and we are quite literally paying the price. it shows up in both individual extreme weather events and the long-term trend like the newly updated hardiness zones, a map guiding farmers and gardeners what to grow and where and look at how it's shifted since 2012, as the coldest days got a lot warmer. >> our farmers who are at the front line of making sure that we have an abundant, safe, nutritious food supply in the country, they're being challenged right now by climate change. >> the chief scientist for the u.s. department of agriculture pointed to georgia, simultaneously losing the winter chill that fruit trees need while also facing extreme weather, which last year meant the peach state produced hardly any peaches losing 90% of its crop. similar things are happening in new england. >> we lost 30 acres worth of vegetables. >> to oranges in florida,

blueberries in michigan. >> that's not good for mid-march. >> strawberries in california. >> we're down about 90%. >> even cattle ranchers in texas as the state's biggest wildfires scorched more than a million acres of pasture and killed thousands of cattle. over the last two decades, federal data compiled by the environmental working group shows two-thirds of all crop insurance payouts were caused by extreme weather closely linked to climate change, drought, floods, and heat totaling more than $100 billion. that's the kind of thing which makes food more expensive. it's also why the usda is working to develop crops which can withstand the new realities of climate change. >> the keyword in this equation is resiliency and how do we help farmers be more resilient. and so we have to develop varieties that have an opportunity to be more tolerant to heat, drought, flooding, you know. because we cannot just pick up agriculture and move it. we have to learn how to be resilient where we are, and that's what our scientists are working on every day.

>> for "nbc news daily," i'm chase cain. >> coming up, most young people report interacting with artificial intelligence every day, and sometimes they don't even realize it. we're going to tell you what all parents need to know, but first time for today's daily snapshot and holy cow, an enormous albino water buffalo and his owner were invited to meet thailand's prime minister at the country's capital. that giant animal stands six feet high and weighs in at nearly 1.5 tons. that's about the average weight of a car. the animal is becoming sort of a celebrity in thailand, appearing on a popular soap opera after it was recently sold for half a million dollars. that's not even close to the record amount with another water buffalo sold for nearly $1.5 million last year. wow. talk about a b

all right, this is a very interesting topic for today's modern parenting. we are talking about the impact of artificial intelligence on young people. it shows up in places you mite not even realize. ai is quickly becoming an integral part of our everyday lives. 80% of young people say they interact with artificial intelligence multiple times a day according to a united nations study. joining me now, the founder of w.a.i., a tech education company. this is really interesting, when we just talk about how ai actually affects a young,

developing brain, what do we know? >> right, so when you think about chatting with an ai chat bot and one that is as sophisticated as chatgpt they seem human-like. in the brain of a child, it could feel like you're interacting with a person, a virtual friend that has in some ways come to life. we want to be careful about the type of social relationships children do develop with ai chat bots because if they're too communicative. if that's their sole source of engagement or they spend too much time there, they might become a little less empathetic and a little bit more narcissistic. chat bots, for instance, it's a one-way relationship, so even though they seem like they're very empathetic, it's very much an illusion. they can validate your needs, they can answer your questions, but real friendships that kids need to build require reciprocity, they go through conflicts, tension. >> they have to give, not just receive. >> exactly, and with chat bots it's one way straight. you want to be careful as a parent, how much time is your child spending engaging with these chat bots.

>> how can you tell if your kid, for example, is picking up, perhaps some of those bad habits or that just interaction with ai has gone too far? >> it's going to depend on how much time they're spending with ai and interacting with ai. and that's probably going to require good communication between the parent and the child as to how they're using these ai systems. if you think about social media, most of these platforms are building chat bots right in. if your child has snapchat, maybe they're a little older, there's an ai chat bot they can interact with that's similar to interacting with a friend. that's how it's framed. if you see your child spending a lot of time online but they're in what seems like a friendship, you might want to inquire if it's with a chat bot and that comes with its own host of dangers and risks. >> you mentioned a lot of this ai is embedded already in the social media platforms that we use every day in a way that some people may not even realize. is it in instagram, facebook, snapchat? >> it's definitely in snapchat. there are chat bots on instagram. they're actually in the form of

celebrities. they haven't necessarily taken off, they're not yet mainstream. >> what do you mean in the form of celebrities? >> so kendall jenner, i don't know if you saw tom brady meta launched chat bots in their likeness, they go under different names that people can interact with. >> you get the experience of like interacting -- or you think you're interacting with your favorite star. >> in some ways you would think it's your favorite- but they go under a different name, but chat bots, personal chat bots, they're going to become as ubiquitous as smartphones and the internet. they're going to play a very big role in our lives. whether he interact with them in many different places. st it important that we're aware what the potential is, some of the dangers. some of the things we don't want to reveal. you don't divulge secrets to chat bots. they are a tool. they're a piece of software. >> that's perhaps a bigger reality to think we could be interacts with ai in the way we use smartphones every day. how do we keep kids safe? >> i think education is essential, both for kids and for

parents. the more kids understand what ai is and how it works, the easier it is to explain some of the risks and some of the dangers of what ai is and what ai isn't, and the same goes for parents. i would recommend parents lean into ai, learn about it, play around with these tools so you know what's happening. keep an open dialogue at home so your kids feel comfortable talking about how they're using it, how their friends are using it. and i think most importantly in the ai age is ensuring you prioritize play and activities that don't involve ai or screens. getting outside, building human friendships, reading, music, dance, all sorts of activities so we really build a balanced child and it's not what we've had in that social media age, had in that social media age, some sortf add o foicr people who feel limited by the unpredictability of generalized myasthenia gravis and who are anti-achr antibody positive, season to season, ultomiris is continuous symptom control, with improvement in activities of daily living. it is reduced muscle weakness. and ultomiris is the only long-acting gmg treatment

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