How to Prepare Children for an AI Future

Hi, I'm Steph. Um, it's so nice to actually be here listening to you. I

actually interviewed you on my podcast a few years ago, which is very special.

Um, my question to you is, I'm a mother of a 2-year-old, and with all everything you know about AI, my question is, what should I be focusing on in terms of her

education and how I can best prepare her for the world that she's going to be entering in for, yeah, the next 16, 17 years of her life.

>> Thank you. Uh that's an amazing question. Uh what do we do with our

question. Uh what do we do with our children in this world? Um

so first of all, love her. Okay? Because

believe it or not, uh that's the only real support she will get in this very confusing world. But then on the

confusing world. But then on the practical level and and and love her in a way where you know as a mother that she's going to be okay, right? when you

where you know as as a mother that even if life is difficult loving her makes life less difficult. So, so remember the one thing that we all forget when we're

raising our children, trying very hard to prepare prepare them for the world by pushing them too hard and so on, is that the best children, the best grown-ups in

the world come from an environment of love, not an environment of discipline.

>> Okay? Not an environment of uh conditional love. So, I I spoke openly

conditional love. So, I I spoke openly about Alice. I don't know if we're

about Alice. I don't know if we're recording this, but uh uh you know, I think the one thing that made Alice so resilient is she was very loved by her parents. Okay, I met her mother. I

parents. Okay, I met her mother. I

didn't meet her late father that she lost. But the stories she tell me about

lost. But the stories she tell me about him is what makes Alice so resilient in a very difficult world. Right? Other

than that, there are practical tips and the practical tips are number one, uh be prepared for AI. So if you're not using AI today, use AI. Don't use it in a

stupid way. Don't ask for recipes or

stupid way. Don't ask for recipes or gossip or ask it to write your email.

That is really stupid. We've been given the ultimate tool of intelligence. Okay?

So I use my AIS only for deep searches.

Very deep searches. Okay? And I use four of them to pit against each other. So I

go and ask Gemini for a deep search.

Gives me a 40page report. I read it very well. Then I give it to Deep Seek. And

well. Then I give it to Deep Seek. And

then Deep Seek goes like, "Oh, that's too American. you know here is the right

too American. you know here is the right way to look at it right and then I take it from deepseek and then give it to Chad GPT very Californian so she gives me a very nice very nice way to read it

but not nothing really material then I give it to Claude and Claude looks at the mathematics and so on right and it's really interesting how much more intelligent your daughter could be as

compared to everyone else if she learns the skill of knowledge the skill of knowledge the skill of real intelligence that's number Number two, I I said is human connection. Believe it or not, in

human connection. Believe it or not, in a world where AI is taking over everything. The one thing that AI will

everything. The one thing that AI will not take over is this. Is remembering

that we spoke a few years ago is having that connection. You know, when you meet

that connection. You know, when you meet someone and you go like, "Hey, it's been a long time." Okay, trust me, this is going to be your biggest skill going forward. The best artists are going to

forward. The best artists are going to be machines, but the best live performers are going to be on stage.

Okay? the best uh uh um you know salespeople h are going to be ones that have deep relationships with others. So

that's number two. Number three is I would ask you to teach her ethics, believe it or not. And I said that many times and at the beginning got a lot of

resistance because I appear to be a hopeless romantic. Uh but I am a serious

hopeless romantic. Uh but I am a serious geek. I may have mentioned that and my

geek. I may have mentioned that and my geek community is following up with this that like we taught AI uh things like intelligence, linguistic intelligence are, you know, we we taught them EQ, we

taught them emotional intelligence. They

they have empathy to the needs of the users and so on. We're we're going to have to teach them ethics because our decisions in the world are not made

through our intelligence. They are made through our ethics based on our ethics as informed by our intelligence. Right?

And so if we become ethical, our AIs will become ethical. And if our AIs will become ethical, our corrupt leaders will not be able to destroy our world. Right?

Because everyone is going to depend on those AIs to get things done. Uh I will ask you to teach her to uh to to learn the truth. So, one of the big big shifts

the truth. So, one of the big big shifts in this world is that the mind manipulation machine of the media since

the 70s when powered by AI is 10 times more powerful. We're being lied to all

more powerful. We're being lied to all the time. I can guarantee you nothing

the time. I can guarantee you nothing you've been told through the media, mainstream or social media today is true. Okay? Because you know what the

true. Okay? Because you know what the truth is? The truth, the whole truth,

truth is? The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Right? So

teach your children and yourselves to debate everything, literally everything.

And what's the best way to debate? You

take it to an AI and say, "What's what's wrong about this? Are there any lies in this? Is there any part missing in this?

this? Is there any part missing in this?

Is there an alternative view around this that comes from someone else?" And to and to make yourself more intelligent.