A man shared how his seven-year-old daughter instintictively turns to Chat GPT whenever she has a question that her parents cannot answer. He reflected on what he described as a subtle change in the way children may learn in an artificial intelligence- driven world. The post has sparked a conversation about the growing role of AI in everyday life.
Karan Dhundia, a regional manager based in Gurugram, took to LinkedIn to share that his daughter has come to believe that ChatGPT “knows everything”. Whenever she asks her parents something they do not know, her first instinct is not to suggest finding the answer together. She simply turns to the AI chatbot to get answers to her queries.
“It’s Just Missing The Thing She Actually Needs” “My seven year
old thinks ChatGPT knows everything. If her parents don’t have an answer, her instinct isn’t ‘let’s find out together.’ It’s ‘just ask ChatGPT,’” he wrote. “It makes me laugh. But she’s not wrong. It probably does know a lot more facts.” However, he argued that there was something important that technology could not replace.
He said, “It’s just missing the thing she actually needs, which is us struggling to find the answer with her. The pausing. The guessing. The ‘let’s look it up together.’ That’s a skill. I see the same pattern showing up at work. Someone hits a question they can’t answer, and the fastest move now is to ask a tool, not a colleague. The tool answers faster. But something else used to happen in that gap. A conversation. A mentor moment. A person learning to think.”
He argued that the while AI can answer faster, but it takes away the memory of people struggling to find an answer. “AI can give my daughter an answer. It cannot give her the memory of watching two adults not know something and figure it out anyway,” he said. “That’s the human part I don’t want to automate, at home or at work.”
Towards the end, he reflected on the bigger picture, suggesting that good leaders were not necessarily those who always had the quickest answers to questions, but those who believed leadership also involved being comfortable with uncertainty.
Internet Agrees With His Opinions
His post has since led to a discussion about the impact AI could have beyond productivity and efficience, particularly in the way people learn, interact and solve problems together.
“This is completely relatable. If there is something AI can’t replace, then it has to be human connections. Asking questions and taking advice not only keeps conversations alive but also gives a perspective that AI tends to miss, including the background of the problem, culture, and so on,” said a user.
Another quipped, “This is such an important distinction. Getting the answer is one thing, but learning how to think through a question, test an idea and arrive at an answer is where so much of the learning happens.”
“Learning to think and learning to learn are valuable skills. Let’s hope we don’t lose them by relying too much on AI. No wonder, schools have started bringing back books and banning AI in class,” someone else shared.
An individual said, “This is what scares me most. I hope that there will be guardrails in the shape of education policy, in schools, and at the parents’ level that our children do not start depending on AI totally.”
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