My teenage son is against AI, but I use it every day at my corporate job. It's made for difficult conversations at home.

The author (right) and her son (left) disagree on AI.

Courtesy of Crystal Hoshaw

Nearly every parent knows you can be literally anywhere with the kids — out to dinner, at the park, sitting around the living room, or packed in the car — and they'll come up with questions you can't answer.Until recently, my parental refrain was, "Let's Google it."Growing up with Google as a fact of life, my son never had any objections. Now that AI has hit the scene in full force, he's not as comfortable with my new response: "Let's ask AI."My son, Noah, has gleaned very clear anti-AI sentiments from YouTube, his peers, and likely ambient cultural unease. In many ways, I get it. He sees AI as an existential threat to humanity, the environment, and to creativity — very real and very mature concerns for a teen just entering high school.But while Noah is forming his worldview, learning to think critically, and determining his inner compass, I'm living in a world where AI is already embedded in how I work.I use AI as part of my daily workflow in corporate leadershipAt work, I'm often the one leading the charge of incorporating AI into the workflow. It's been a game-changer for team productivity, and I could argue that it's reduced work stress and the ennui of repetitive tasks.This isn't the life I imagined I'd be living. As a former philosophy major, questions of ethics, consciousness, and what it means to be human were part of my career path. In fact, my graduate continental philosophy program was replaced only a few years ago by ethics and artificial intelligence (if only I'd had the foresight to change my major).