HeyJaredplants & machines
Algorithms are rewiring childhood. What does it take to raise sovereign thinkers, rooted in the living world?
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How to explain machine ‘thinking’ to children (opens the original)
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Ask a friend to write a four-line poem about rain and she might think about how the rain feels on her skin. She might think about how it smells and how it sounds. Ask a chatbot the same thing and something completely different happens.It’s crucial that we don’t raise a generation that thinks of AI as just another friend. Or worse, as a better friend, one who knows it all, gives faster responses, is always present, and never contradicts. Children must understand the workings of AI, know where its
AI Hasn't Read Most Of What Humans Know (opens the original)
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Much of my work these days consists of wondering how we should talk to children about AI. While everything everywhere is changing at a head-spinning speed, here is a truth I know: I don’t want us raising a generation that thinks AI is an all-knowing, magic friend.Childhood thrives on love, attention and relational learning. Once we have a generation that thinks that a sycophantic, frictionless friendship is the real deal, we have robbed children of foundational development and eroded the conditi
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