Merryn Somerset Webb

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Merryn Talks Money · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age? · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

So, you know, kids are now seeing AI slop all over the place, which I think keeps them moving through reels faster and faster and faster and through larger chunks of time than they might have pre-AI.

So there is a there's a connection that you can see where the danger signals are

parents and for teachers.

From the day of the first printing press.

Books are dangerous for people.

Books are dangerous.

And then the radio was dangerous.

And then the television was dangerous.

media was dangerous.

The other thing, when we're talking about teaching AI and how to use AI, when we go back to the basics you were talking about earlier of critical thinking, it would seem to me that that is one of the most important skills that we need as long as we're dealing with AI in the form of LLMs as opposed to anything else.

Because LLMs, as we know, are very error prone hallucinations, we call them.

So it is very, very frequent and particularly the longer you go on with your prompts and your tokens, the more likely you are to have hallucinations and errors come through.

So if we are encouraging people to use LLMs to help them study, we also need to be sure that we give them the tools that they need to understand how and where these errors will creep in and how best to recognize them.

That seems to me to be a huge part of AI learning.

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Finally, something to cheer teachers up.

Listen, we've spent quite a long time talking about what education should look like,

we would like, or you would like the future to look like, back to basics, test both, include AI education, etc.

But it's not there yet.

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