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The honest answer to whether your child will have a job turns out to be a question about character. The worry underneath all the others, the one parents lie awake over, is not about honesty, privacy, or screen time. It is about work. Will there be a place in the
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The hardest piece in this series is about the relationship your child forms with something that never says no. It is worth being honest about why a child might come to prefer the machine to a person, because the reasons are good ones. The machine is available at one in
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Five questions you can ask at dinner tonight, and why the point is the asking and not the answers. The first two essays in this series were about what to teach. This one is about how to begin, and the method will feel backward because it asks you to stop
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Why a confident answer and a correct one have nothing to do with each other, and how to raise a child who knows the difference. The dangerous thing about a machine that is wrong is not that it is wrong. It is that it is wrong in complete sentences. When
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A guide for parents who do not need to become experts. They need to start the conversation. There is a good chance your child has already had a longer conversation with artificial intelligence than you have. Not a more sophisticated one. A longer one. While the adults in the house
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Artificial intelligence tends to sound safer the moment someone can say that a person remains in charge. The phrase "human in the loop" turns up in government reports, corporate presentations, academic papers, and news coverage, and it does its work quietly. It tells a nervous public that, however
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AI is often hailed as a force that will raise productivity, ease work, advance science, and promote prosperity, much like electricity, automobiles, and the internet, reshaping the economy and improving most lives. Yet beneath this optimism lies a growing concern, particularly among accountants, analysts, marketers, developers, project managers, teachers, financial
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Artificial intelligence now drafts emails, summarizes meetings, makes images, answers questions, translates languages, and performs work once reserved for people. Most public conversation about AI focuses on productivity, jobs, and innovation. However, the essential question is often overlooked: Is AI making us more human, or less? This question reframes the
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Most people imagine artificial intelligence as something dramatic. Popular culture has trained us to picture humanoid robots, self-aware machines, and conversational systems that seem barely distinguishable from human beings. In that version of events, AI is a spectacle. It arrives with headlines, demonstrations, and urgent warnings about the future.
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We have been handed the wrong debate about artificial intelligence. Or rather, we have been handed two debates, each internally coherent, each capturing something real, and each, on its own, insufficient to guide us through what is actually at stake. The first debate is about promise. AI systems detect cancers
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For most of human history, privacy was protected not by law alone but by friction. Information about a person was difficult to gather, expensive to store, and slow to analyze. To understand someone required proximity, patience, and sustained effort. Human beings moved through society with a degree of natural ambiguity
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping how products and services are delivered, marketed, and priced, and one of the most consequential changes unfolding right now is largely invisible to the people it affects most. The practice known as surveillance pricing fundamentally transforms the long-familiar logic of dynamic pricing. Where airlines and