A journalist who researches and uses AI daily describes the tension between staying honest about technological risk and letting a teenager imagine a future without inheriting adult anxieties.
Working with AI every day gives the author detailed exposure to both its capabilities and risks, which creates anxiety about advising a teenager planning college and careers.
The author worries about transmitting that anxiety to her 14-year-old and wants to preserve space for the teen to explore interests without immediately calculating whether AI will make those careers obsolete.
Then I go home and try to help my 14-year-old plan a future I can't picture. Essay by Beth McDonough The author is helping her 14-year-old stepdaughter plan for her future. My stepdaughter is 14, which means we are entering the phase of parenting where everyone suddenly expects her to have opinions about her future.
We ask them because that is what you do with teenagers — you start helping them picture adulthood. The problem is that I am having an increasingly hard time picturing it for her. I also don't think I get to dismiss the warnings just because the incentives are messy.
Business Insider Parenting I work with AI every day. I am, in other words, probably more plugged into this stuff than is good for me. Courtesy of the author I use AI every day at work.
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