Haidt and Price Turn to the Question of How Children Should Meet Artificial Intelligence
On TODAY, psychologist Jonathan Haidt and journalist Catherine Price discussed their new book and how families might guide children away from screens and toward a careful approach to artificial intelligence. The conversation is a reminder that the way adults frame these tools matters for the young.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt and health and science journalist Catherine Price appeared on TODAY to discuss their new book, The Amazing Generation, and to consider how parents can help children step back from screens and think carefully about artificial intelligence.
Price suggested that lecturing children is not the method most likely to work. She described the book's approach as revealing what she characterised as the aims of technology companies, whom she said do not want users to understand how their products operate.
The discussion extended to how adults might approach artificial intelligence alongside their children. The Foundation notes that the manner in which parents and teachers introduce these tools shapes how the young come to understand them, and that guidance offered without condescension is more likely to be heard.
The conversation is a modest but useful contribution to a question families increasingly face: how to raise children attentive to the pull of screens and the arrival of new systems in daily life.
This report is based on reporting by TODAY (NBC).
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- TODAY (NBC) today.com