“What happens when we impose cognitive offloading on kids who have yet to do much cognitive onloading?” ~ Jessica Winter
I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read the article summary via the linked image, or if you’re a subscriber to The New Yorker, access the article in its entirety. It eloquently describes the concerns some of us have about the type of information children are being fed, not only as part of play time, but now as education.
There seem to be no brakes on AI right now, but perhaps there can still be some guardrails put in place.
P.S. I just found this article that adds more insight about the concern: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202507/ai-and-the-arrival-of-the-cognitive-colonizers