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Growing up with AI
What should kids and teens practice for themselves and what can they hand to AI, and what does the evidence say so far?
An essay of advice for kids, teens and future generations growing up with powerful AI.
Education & learningChildren & teensAI companionsAI & society
Featured: October 2026
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- 2026-10-19
Growing up with AI · Milestone · Commonwealth Club World Affairs
Kevin Roose: Inside the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
Kevin Roose spoke at the Commonwealth Club on the race to create artificial superintelligence; asked what teens should know, he said the key skill is telling apart tasks that are like weightlifting from tasks that are like forklifting.
- 2026-09-24
Growing up with AI · Release · The Peter McCormack Show
The Existential Risk of AI is Real | Nick Bostrom (The Peter McCormack Show, episode 216)
Nick Bostrom said it probably makes sense to hedge your bets about near-term AI scenarios, and favored general-purpose skills such as learning new tools and adapting to new circumstances.
- 2025-09-11
Growing up with AI · Milestone · Federal Trade Commission
FTC Launches Inquiry into AI Chatbots Acting as Companions
The FTC issued 6(b) orders to seven companies (Alphabet, Character Technologies, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snap and X.AI) asking how they test and limit negative effects of companion chatbots on children and teens.
- 2025-07-16
Growing up with AI · Release · Common Sense Media
Nearly 3 in 4 Teens Have Used AI Companions, New National Survey Finds
Common Sense Media's national survey press release: it calls AI companion use mainstream teen behavior, with about one in three teens having used them for social interaction and relationships.
- 2025-06-25
Growing up with AI · Paper · PNAS
Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: Evidence from high school mathematics
A field experiment with nearly a thousand high school math students: GPT-4 access improved performance while solving problems by 48%, and the study compared a standard chatbot with a tutor version prompted to safeguard learning.
- 2025-06-03
Growing up with AI · Paper · Scientific Reports
AI tutoring outperforms in-class active learning: an RCT introducing a novel research-based design in an authentic educational setting
A randomized controlled trial of a research-based AI tutor design in an authentic educational setting, reported in its title to outperform in-class active learning.
- 2025-03
Growing up with AI · Paper · arXiv
How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Extended Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Study
A four-week randomized experiment (n=981) of text and voice chatbot modes: the assigned conditions had no significant effects, but participants who used the chatbot more showed consistently worse outcomes on loneliness, social interaction, emotional dependence and problematic use.
- 2025-02-13
Growing up with AI · Milestone · World Governments Summit
Boring Cities, AI, and DOGE (World Governments Summit)
In a video session at the World Governments Summit, Elon Musk likened raising AI to raising a super-genius child and said being maximally truth-seeking, and curious, is the most important thing to instill for AI safety.