I wrote an essay reflecting on something that has come up while building my startup, Hold My Juice, which is an AI assistant for families.
My dad is a historian. When I was growing up he taught me that facts only matter when you understand the context around them. He was never anti internet or anti Wikipedia. He believed that sourcing, ownership and interpretation were always complicated and he emphasized that this has been true for centuries, long before AI.
This summer I watched my kids use AI in very normal ways. They used it to replace a missing game spinner, create Pokémon cards on a travel day and figure out why Pluto lost planet status. The part that stood out was not that AI helped. It was that my kids pushed back when the answer did not make sense.
My daughter said, “Sometimes ChatGPT is totally not that smart.”
That kind of skepticism feels like the real skill we should be building.
sophiabk•2mo ago
My dad is a historian. When I was growing up he taught me that facts only matter when you understand the context around them. He was never anti internet or anti Wikipedia. He believed that sourcing, ownership and interpretation were always complicated and he emphasized that this has been true for centuries, long before AI.
This summer I watched my kids use AI in very normal ways. They used it to replace a missing game spinner, create Pokémon cards on a travel day and figure out why Pluto lost planet status. The part that stood out was not that AI helped. It was that my kids pushed back when the answer did not make sense.
My daughter said, “Sometimes ChatGPT is totally not that smart.”
That kind of skepticism feels like the real skill we should be building.