You should teach children to be critical thinkers about AI—understanding that it is a fallible, highly agreeable predictive model, not an error-proof, authoritative source—and expose them to it in a guided, monitored way, while avoiding things like AI image transformation that can damage self-image.

39:36think it depends on, you know, the child's it depends on so many factors, right? But obviously the child's age, their maturity level, you know, and and where they are developmentally. So this person did not leave this child's age, but let's we'll start at like I guess high school. We can start there. So high schoolers we're imagining are using AI more in schools. And I know at least for

40:02our kids, they have Chromebooks and so Gemini is just kind of built into their search engine and so it's just already there. You know, I I don't know how much the teachers are really monitoring that. But I do think it's important at home to have these conversations with your kids. So, if it's a high schooler, they might be diving more into like the chatbot friends um and using it to supplement

40:29their actual answers or responses for, >> you know, what they should be doing independently. So, I think it's really important to teach kids to be critical thinkers, and it's something that we've been talking about here with our kids who are only, you know, seven and nine. But I think it's even more important at that high school age to really have that conversation and to let kids, you know,

40:54understand and know that just because it's a computer, you know, it doesn't mean that it's going to be accurate. Like we do tend to think of computers as being like you know accurate and errorproof but you know we know that AI is not right. It hallucinates it is not always correct and the more you have conversations with it the more it starts to make mistakes. >> Yeah. So you know having that

41:22understanding really built into your kids of it can make mistakes and it is not errorproof is really important and again to be critical thinkers. So to be able to like think about is this answer correct? Is this you know aligned with what I know? Yeah. >> Do I need to like double check this or you know go elsewhere for information? I I was showing my kids the other day how

41:47AI is highly agreeable. Um, and I showed it by just doing two separate prompts of like things that you thought and and it it agreed with you in both cases because often we'll we'll use it to like not like resolve a fight, but like someone someone says one thing and the other person says says another thing and they'll be like, "Hey, uh, Gorgle, is it true that X, Y, or Z?" And it's really

42:13funny. I showed them at how you just phrase it in a certain way and then it will come back to you with an agreeable answer to your and they're like, "Oh, wow." Like you can >> It's not the definitive answer. Um, and I think I feel like I've taught my kids have have a high level of skepticism towards a lot of the stuff. Maybe even too much. They think like

42:31>> the news they think the news is AI because it's so well produced or anything with like a like a blurred background they think is AI. [laughter] >> Oh, that's so funny. Yeah. So maybe not. I mean, a healthy dose of skepticism, right? But I like the word critical thinking because it, >> you know, you can, it's an important life skill for all adults to be critical