This week, for the respective editions of their newsletters, children today and the users of the users, Anna North and Adam Clark Estes, they talk about something that occupies them both as journalists and as parents of Young Nextie: how a nexids: how -howg Nexidid?
Anna North: Hi Adam! Excited to chat about AI and children! In addition to informing about children’s children, I also have a 7 -year -old boy (who is sick today and Mira Amphibian At this time, I could interrupt), and a 2 -year -old boy (who is not sick of current housing, yes!).
Adam Clark Estes: Hi Anna! My son is not 2 years old yet, but as they say, the days are long, but the years are short. I feel that I will meet your friends in a short time.
Anna: Ha! So, talk about that, should we start this talking a little about our hopes and fril for our children who grow in the AI era?
I feel that there is much to have hopes: I am excited that my children grow at a time when we can use AI to develop new drugs and decode the elephant language (there maybe some of those tools of AI are learning more adequately?).
My greatest fear is that my children won the point of learning certain skills, such as writing and mathematics, because AI can do those tasks for them. I certainly worry that AI takes jobs too, but that is very far for my children.
Adam: I am not so worried that my son has friends of ia. Probable will! I just hope I don’t spend too much time with them or too much time with technology in general.
I hope we enter the new AI era together and learn how these tools can make our lives better, richer and more interesting. It reminds me of me or how the Internet arrived most age at the same time that I did, but my parents seemed too scared to solve it at that time. I hope to be good.
ANNA: My dad was real as an early adopter on the Internet, so we entered together at that time, which was sweet. We used to go to Doctor Who Chat rooms: I remember to list “our” age like “43 and 12”. That was good for me because 1) I learned to use a computer and 2) I learned to be curious and not fearful of new technologies. Except that I am a little fear with AI! I may have to channel that spirit of curiosity a little more when I am with my children.
A friend of mine told me that her district is implementing ia tools potentially in the kindergarten, so it starts young.
Adam: And I keep seeing ads for stuffed animals equipped with AI. The AI remains a fashionable word, but I think we are beginning to see how it will really need technology as we know it. I always say that it is only the next iteration of the software that is already in everything. So, or of course, it will be in the classroom, not only for trap purposes.
ANNA: Check the use of AI is less problems for young children because they are not yet doing much of their work on computers. The AI tools that I have seen for K-6 are like this reading coach with AI, which seems less vulnerable to traps that, for example, chatgpt. I have definitely heard people say that AI could potentially sacrifice a more personalized tutoring someday, which could be positive since individual instruction is really beneficial, but public school classes are often too large to offer much of it. That idea does not scare me too much, Althegh, or of course, there are questions about how reliable and precise are the tools of AI.
My eldest son is in the first degree, and in his school, there is a lot of talk about the role of AI in mathematics. The argument that is heard is very similar to what they taught us about the calculators, sincerely: that the thesis can do many simple operations for us, so children should think about numbers.
I really do not think we return to oral exams, but we will have to reconsider how education looks in a world that runs in Ia.
Adam: I am also curious about how AI simply changes how schools work. As, if AI makes it too easy to cheat when writing essays, what will teachers assign the installation? And what will they qualify? I really do not think we return to oral exams, but we will have to reconsider how education looks in a world that runs in Ia.
ANNA: I think there is a change to more tests and tasks in class, which can cause its own stress. Also miraculous if there will only be a change to develop a different set of skills, if writing only the less important beoms. We see children and young people who consume less text: I would be surprised if there were more emphasis in the coming years in oral presentation or audio and visual production skills. That takes me away as a writer, but maybe what Plato would have wanted? I try to remember that people always have a skeptic of new technologies (equally written language), and some of the anxieties we experience now have thousands of years.
I would be surprised if there were more emphasis on the coming years in the oral presentation or the audio and visual production skills.
Adam: And some seem instantaneous repetitions of anxieties of only a decade or two. Every time a new technology or medium appears, there is a collective fan that is destroying young people. This is as true for social networks as it was for television, video games, comics and radio. I think this will also be true for AI in social environments. It is already possible to have a friend AI through applications such as Replika or Kindroid.
I was joking about ia the animals, either. There is one called Grok that is designed, by grimes of all people, for over 3 years. Children can ask questions, and AI will tell you things, like a futuristic Teddy Raxpin, except that Teddy Ruxpin had a cassette tape in the belly that parents could and know what the stuffed bear would say. I have no idea what AI will tell our children!
I have seen people call this the end of the imaginary friend. I think it’s just the beginning of something new. What is it, I can’t imagine. At least not.
ANNA: It’s fun for me because Teddy Ruxpin was famous! The social aspect/game of AI is super interesting. I am not worried about killing the friends of the image: children will make friends with a can of tomato paste, and I don’t think you can destroy their easy social creativity.
My greatest concern with AI friends at this time is that security there are already demands claiming that chatbots pushed children towards violence or self -harm. Do you know what railings are there in place?
Adam: My general feeling about Guardrrails is that, no matter how many there are, technology finds a way to jump on them. YouTube, for example, has long fought with how to ensure that parents can lead their children to safe and appropriate content for age, but children inevitably find that the timbres suck a rabbit burrow or algorithic videos of reached. Launch an infinite supply of content generated by AI in the mixture won the aid, so I believe that parents will have to be attentive to verify with what their children are seeing or playing.
There was a PEW study earlier this year that said that approximately a quarter of all adolescents had tried chatgpt for school work. That number had doubled in a year.
So, if it assumes that the railings are not there or will not work and that the children will attempt a possible tool or possible, where does that leave the parents? To be honest, I think we should all do what your dad did with you: hang out in the Proverbial chat rooms together. Talk together with chatbots. Play with toys ai together. Learn about this new technology along with your children and help them learn when to save them.
I think we should all do what your dad did with you: hang out in the proverbial chat rooms. Talk together with chatbots. Play with toys ai together.
ANNA: I am sure that my dad will appreciate this support for his upbringing! You are not alone, he thought. Andrew Przybylski, a professor at Oxford, I think we have talked about who studies phones and children, talks about presenting their children to smartphones in the way that would teach a child to ride a bicycle: it is a tool. It has danger but also uses. It can be fun, and it is a basic part of life. Maybe the same is true for AI?
This conversation makes me think that I need to use more with my children, which is not where I expected to finish.
Adam: It is important to note that we are mostly talking about generative here and chatbots. There are also image and videos generators. All these have obvious applications for children in schools, to cheat and learning. But we house in a Gothic in what the next generation of AI will affect the life of our children, things like agents that can use themselves or very deployed artificial intelligence that in theory can do anything. That future is much more difficult to understand at this time.
ANNA: Yes, I think there is much about the next 10 or 15 years, both in AI and in the lives of our children in general, it is difficult to make their heads. My husband and I always joke that our children go to university on the moon, but I think it is just a way of expressing the uncertainty that is always there when too far is being screened.
