If device makers become the authority that labels people as children, what stops an adult who wants contact with children from being labelled a child? On current evidence, this is a real gap, and almost no public guidance addresses it. A few years ago, over lunch in London, I sat across from a member of Pornhub’s senior management team. I had come to talk about one thing: the sheer volume of fetishised Roblox content on their platform. Roblox avatars, recorded in-game perform

By George Peterkin - Managing Director of Mind Your Health and Founder SoS BEACON Sadly, conversations about the loss of three very young people has entered a great many Australian homes this past week. The subject has been all over our media, and a news story like this never stays where it started. It travels through social media feeds and school group chats, gathering rumour and half-truths as it goes, until it reaches a child alone with a phone or surfaces as a question fr

Most of us think of AI as something you ask a question and it answers. An AI agent (Agentic AI) goes further. You give it a job and it goes off on its own, clicking through websites and making decisions until the job is done. Nobody checks each step. On 18 June 2026, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, was testing one of these agents. Its job sounded harmless as it was told to find out how much the government spends on medicines. It went to a Medicare statistics website run b