S1E446 - The Impact of AI on Children's Development

The explosion of artificial intelligence exposed many benefits and challenges for children interacting with AI, especially in educational and social contexts. 

“The big question becomes whether children can benefit from those AI interactions in a way that is similar to how they benefit from interacting with other people,” says Ying Xu, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “So if we talk about learning first, my research, along with that of many others, show that children can actually learn effectively from AI, as long as the AI is designed with learning principles in mind.”

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