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I use AI at work and I do not let my kids use it at home

Mixed Posted by Johanna Richter Reading time ~ 2 min

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I manage a team at a logistics company in Hamburg and I rely on AI assistants for a fair share of my day. They help me summarize long email threads, draft first passes of policy documents, and keep up with changing regulations. I think I am a better manager for using them. I also have two children, ten and thirteen, and I have decided they will not use generative AI at home for another few years. My reasoning is not that the tools are evil. My reasoning is that they are thirteen and ten, and their job right now is to struggle with blank pages and badly written essays and the slow boring work of becoming someone who can think. There will be plenty of time for them to use assistants. There is a narrower window for them to build the muscles that make the assistants useful rather than a crutch. I know this position is not popular with some of their classmates' parents. I know my children find it unfair. I accept that some of what I am doing will look wrong in ten years. What I am trying to hold onto is the idea that these are different contexts. An adult manager with experience uses a tool differently than a child forming habits. Policy should respect that. Schools should respect that. And I think parents are allowed to draw lines that differ from the defaults the industry offers.
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