Mitch Meyer

@fadi_efendi @NewYorker I think you’re missing my point. Kids need a way to learn how to work with AI without letting it replace their thinking. Yes, schools waste money on a lot of bad programs. But the answer isn’t to stop trying. It’s to build better programs that actually help kids learn.

@mitchmeyerr @NewYorker It doesn't seem that "tech designed for children" solves much, though economist.com/united-states/…

Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. “When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an essay, she gets a prompt: ‘Help me write,’ ” Winter writes. “If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is ‘Help me visualize.’ She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: ‘Help me edit.’ ‘Beautify this slide.’ ” Proponents of generative A.I. in elementary and middle schools argue that such early exposure will foster digital-media literacy, and prepare them for a future in which most professions are steeped in A.I. But the technology also poses significant cognitive and social-emotional risks to young people. Read Winter’s report about A.I.’s infiltration into schools—and what it could mean for young minds: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NSWuBG

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Students are building the games that are helping them learn the curriculum. A great example of that is below. Built by a 5th grader! blastoff.org/site/7af306c5-…

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My 5-year-old son wants to learn how to type, so I opened GPT-Pro on the left, Codex App on the right, and showed him how to prompt his way into creating a typing game. Watching him play blew my mind — when I was 5, I learned typing with expensive commercial software. Absolutely insane times.

Not right @sama

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If you made it this far, first of all thank you, and second, I'd love to get your thoughts!

This is one of the most consequential bets a society can make. And right now, I'd argue we're getting it wrong.

The average American in the 1930s would be put in special education today. Is that because we've all gotten smarter? I don't think so. See thread