What is the right way to parent in the age of AI?

As if having kids wasn’t complicated enough, the internet and everything that has come with it has only added more challenges that parents have to deal with. Most would argue that it is unrealistic to raise a child with 0 screen time for a full eighteen years of life, but giving them access to such things opens up a whole different world that is occasionally very positive, but also has plenty of risks.

In this decade, the new, fun thing that could be affecting your child’s upbringing and development is artificial intelligence. They could be using it to cheat on schoolwork or even as a friend, and a parent who isn’t supervising their internet use would be none the wiser. While AI doesn’t always have to be a net negative, there is no doubt that it is a touchy subject that becomes even touchier when minors are involved. Seeing as there are plenty of full-grown adults who don’t know how to have a healthy relationship with AI products, kids are only likely to be more vulnerable to going down a dark path with this kind of technology. If they have access to it at all, there need to be checks and balances that will inevitably be influenced by the belief system of their parents.