Eileen

is kind of the same thing as telling parents of eight-month-olds, oh, don't bother encouraging your child to crawl.

You're never going to use that skill again in your real life.

Who crawls?

Unless you lose something under the couch, you're never going to need to do this, right?

Just get right up on a bicycle.

Start riding.

Start running, right?

Of course, infants don't crawl because crawling is a useful life skill forever.

They crawl because the act of crawling enables certain kind of positionality in the world which helps them to develop themselves neurologically, psychologically over time.

And crawling is engaging networks for motion, for thinking, for reflection, for planning, for movement that then become the basis for healthy kinds of behavior that don't involve crawling later.

We need really to return to that logic when we're asking ourselves what we want for our children.

We need again to put on those scientific hats, those thoughtful hats.

We need to engage with our young people and think about how are they using the technology?

How are they experiencing this?

Are they engaging with the big ideas I want them to engage with, but they're doing it in a different format that I'm not used to because I wasn't an AI native the way they are?

Or are they actually circumventing developmental processes that we value for them?

And is that leading to

to certain kinds of holes or differences in their development, which are problematic.

And I would argue that instances of both are existing in our use of AI right now.

And we need really to get to the bottom of how we want our young children to develop in today's world.