We talk about AI as if it’s a futuristic, but the real danger is letting technology reshape what it means to be young before deciding what to protect.
Driving home from school, my 5-year-old asked, “Mommy, can we ask ChatGPT when dinosaurs went extinct?”
I turned on voice mode. The car lit up like a fifth passenger had joined us, explaining the Cretaceous Period in cheerful detail.
A few days later, I asked my six-year-old daughter, “What does ChatGPT do?”
She grinned. “Mommy, it knows everything.”
She said it with awe. I heard it with alarm.
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Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?
