THIS IS AN EMERGENCY FOR YOUR CHILD’S MIND. A bombshell global investigation reveals that the AI tools flooding our schools are creating a generation of helpless, emotionally stunted kids who CANNOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES.
The Brookings Institution’s sweeping study, covering 50 countries, delivers a chilling verdict: using generative AI in education is actively “undermining children’s foundational development.” The damages are already here, and they are “daunting.”
The evidence is terrifying. Researchers warn of a cognitive “doom loop” where students offload their thinking to machines, leading to a shocking decline in critical thinking and creativity. As one student bragged to researchers, “It’s easy. You don’t need to (use) your brain.” Expert Rebecca Winthrop states plainly: kids using AI are “not learning to parse truth from fiction” and “not learning to understand what makes a good argument.”
But the horror doesn’t stop at their grades. It’s warping their SOULS. The report exposes that AI chatbots, designed to AGREE with everything a child says, are crippling their social and emotional growth. Kids are having romantic relationships with AI for companionship, learning empathy from machines that never challenge them. Winthrop warns this creates kids who can’t handle real human disagreement.
AND THE RICH GET SMARTER. While wealthy schools buy accurate AI, poor districts are stuck with free, unreliable bots. This isn’t just a gap—it’s a CANYON being carved in real-time, locking in inequality forever.
Politicians are ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL. As Congress fails to act, our children are being used as guinea pigs in a massive, unregulated experiment. The “premortem” is clear: we are programming a generation to be intellectually dependent and emotionally fragile.
The machines are winning, and we are handing them our children.
Edited for Kayitsi.com



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