Yeah, it baffles me that the sentiment here is that AI can only hurt kids' reading ability, when AI (in the form of a chatbot) is practically a tool that forces its users to read a lot.

I still support for some sort of AI restriction for kids, though, since school is a place for kids to socializing. It's a more aspect important than reading and writing.

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simonw an hour ago | parent [-]

Not if they turn on voice mode, which is pretty excellent these days (at least in ChatGPT and Gemini.)

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raincole an hour ago | parent [-]

I do 100% support banning voice mode for school. (Again mostly for the socializing... or anti-socializing aspect.)

	▲	chalupa-supreme an hour ago \| parent [-]
		We need to remember there are going to be human admin tasks that still need human interaction and critical thought into what you read and write. Adult users of these tools already accept AI outputs without too much thought in varying scenarios. As a child, your willingness to question a tool that’s already better then you at most tasks probably isn’t going too high, and if you go through early education without exercising critical thinking… well we can point to cursive reading/writing as an example of a skill that completely disappears from a generation when not practiced enough.