AI by Age: Elementary (Sit Together)

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When kids are little, you get down on the floor and build the magnet tiles with them. AI should start the same way.

For elementary kids, that means sitting together. You do the driving. They pick where it goes.

Part of that is the rules. Most of the big chatbots are 13 and up, so a young kid shouldn't have their own account anyway.

But mostly it's because sitting next to them is when the teaching happens. When it gets something wrong, you can say, "Huh. It guessed wrong." When it sounds like a person, you can tell them it isn't one. It's a computer that learned from a whole lot of examples, and it doesn't have feelings.

And if they want to type in their name or their school, you're right there to say we keep that to ourselves, the same way we would with a stranger.

None of that feels like supervision when you're doing it together. It just feels like doing something fun with a grown-up.

Later on, you'll step back. For now, get on the floor.