Hacking childhood: will future technologies undermine, or enable, optimal early childhood development?

Robert C Hughes^#¹, Sunil S Bhopal^#^{2

3}, Alexander A Manu⁴; Generative Pre-trained transformer; Alastair C Van Heerden^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Maternal & Child Health Intervention Research Group, Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² Maternal & Child Health Intervention Research Group, Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK sunil.bhopal@newcastle.ac.uk.
³ Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
⁴ Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
⁵ Center for Community Based Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
⁶ SAMRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg-Braamfontein, Gauteng, South Africa.

^# Contributed equally.

Robert C Hughes et al. Arch Dis Child. 2023 Feb.

. 2023 Feb;108(2):82-83.

doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-323158. Epub 2021 Dec 20.

Robert C Hughes^#¹, Sunil S Bhopal^#^{2

3}, Alexander A Manu⁴; Generative Pre-trained transformer; Alastair C Van Heerden^{5

6}

¹ Maternal & Child Health Intervention Research Group, Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² Maternal & Child Health Intervention Research Group, Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK sunil.bhopal@newcastle.ac.uk.
³ Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
⁴ Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
⁵ Center for Community Based Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
⁶ SAMRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg-Braamfontein, Gauteng, South Africa.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: child development; child health; technology.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.