Katie Salen Tekinbaş

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Author Bio

Katie Salen Tekinbaş is a professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, as well as a game designer, a member of the Connected Learning Lab, and executive director of Connected Camps. She is a Public Voices Fellow on Youth Well-Being and Power with The OpEd Project and Hopelab.

October 27, 2026

We can’t monitor our way to online teen safety

A recent report by the Tech Transparency Project found that, despite parental controls offered by Apple and Google, teens can still access “nudify” apps to make AI-generated pornographic material. Many parents will respond by tightening…