AI, Tech, & Your Children
Unlike toilet paper, there’s no shortage of wars, potential wars, and never-ending wars in 2024. For our sake, I will, in earnest, chime in on one of the contemporaneous battles involving our children, the ole war on screens. I’d wager a small (due to inflation) bet that most parents are growing agitated with the social media super parents who promisingly offer the “best 5” strategies for keeping kids off screens. Spoiler alert; get em outside.
The concern I want to focus on involves information. AI is an incredible achievement of the digital age, no disrespect. But as I Russian doll the subject, and its potential impact on society, and particularly our children, my hope turns to terror. Understandably, our dependence on AI is growing at a rate commensurate with the lightening-speed of adoption of AI in all and by all aspects of life. As you open the Russian AI dolls, and ultimately reach the core, you will find the concentrated, centralized, omniscient source of ALL information.
Most of us imagine weapons to be guns, tanks, nuclear and atomic bombs, etc. But can you imagine a more seismic, earth-shattering, cultural devouring weapon than controlling ALL information? The classic, timeless battle of good vs evil in its countless iterations always involves the two sides vying for control of the ultimate weapon that will wield the possessor power of the entire planet. This concept is commonly packaged in an engaging, sci-fi thriller with a hero’s ultimate triumph over a villain. But here is where fiction invades reality. Whomever the core doll is wields the power to rewrite history, erase culture, tradition and roots, deconstruct morals, values, and principals, sew division, manifest wars, and effectively control humankind, past, present, and future. There’s enough fear mongering out there without my contribution. And I don’t want to sound righteous or pious, or God forbid, conspiratorial, but seriously, this is serious.
Charity Bomb’s focus is on fortifying children’s minds for reasons like this. Please teach your children critical and independent thinking, logical fallacy, reasoning, the importance of a strong values system, family, culture(s) & traditions, spirituality, and history.
That’s where we are coming from, and I hope we can help.
You rock,
Matthew
