AI and your kids: Is this new tech terrifying or a helpful tool?

This story is part of Amy Bell’s Parental Guidance column, which airs on CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition.

Artificial intelligence (AI) used to be a science fiction dream.

But with seemingly intelligent systems such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 gaining popularity, it’s clear that AI will be increasingly present in our day-to-day lives, and in our children’s.

I’m not super concerned with the robot uprising just yet, but I do worry about how dependent kids might become on AI and how deeply the technology is already enmeshed in their lives.

Feedback loops 

Jill Fellows, a philosophy professor at Douglas College, says we can already see concerns with AI in things such as gender bias, presenting false information as fact

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