A Message to Parents in the Age of AI

The AI revolution isn't coming. It's here.

You feel it. In the way your children talk about technology. In the headlines that shift from wonder to warning and back again. In the quiet unease when you watch them scroll, knowing something has changed but not quite able to name it.

Most of what you'll read about AI focuses on the practical: screen time limits, privacy settings, keeping up with the latest apps. That's useful. But it's not what this is about.

This is about something deeper. Something almost no one is talking about yet.

There are two paths forward.

The first path leads to entertainment. To distraction so perfect and personalized that your children never need to be bored, never need to sit with discomfort, never need to ask the hard questions about who they are and what they want. This path feels good. It's easy. And it leads nowhere.

The second path leads to self-knowledge. To children who know who they are — not because of what they produce or achieve, but because they've discovered something inside themselves that no machine can touch. This path is harder. It requires presence, conversation, a willingness to sit in silence. And it leads to freedom.

Every parent will choose, whether they know it or not. Every family will take one path or the other.

But there's something underneath this choice that almost no one is talking about.

For centuries, we've been absorbing a story about what human beings are. The story says: the body is a machine. The brain is a computer. The mind is software. Intelligence is computation.

If you believe this story, then improving humans is just an engineering problem. Upgrade the hardware. Optimize the software. Transcend the limitations. This is what some people call transhumanism — and if you accept the premise, it's perfectly logical.

Here's what I believe.

I believe your children are not machines. I believe they have something that no AI will ever have: the capacity to be present, to love, to know themselves, to touch what's real.

I believe the AI revolution is going to make this clearer, not murkier. By showing us what computation can do — and what it can't — AI might be the mirror that finally helps us see what we are.

I believe the parents who understand this will raise different children. Not children who compete with machines on machine terms. Children who know what machines can never know: what it feels like to be alive.

I'm not asking you to believe me.

I'm asking you to look.

Before you decide how to manage your child's screen time, ask yourself: what am I actually preparing them for? A world where they compete with AI? Or a world where they know something AI cannot know?

Before you absorb another expert's advice about technology and parenting, ask yourself: does this person understand what's actually at stake? Or are they just optimizing for outcomes that won't matter in ten years?

Before you decide whether your child needs to be "enhanced" or "optimized" or "prepared for the future of work," ask yourself: do I know what my child actually is? Have I looked? Have they?

This is my invitation.

Not to follow me. Not to buy anything. Not to join a movement.

Just to wake up. Just to see the choice that's in front of you. Just to recognize that the question "How do I raise my child in the age of AI?" is really the question "What does it mean to be human?"

And that question can only be answered by looking. Not by reading another article. Not by downloading another app. By sitting with your child in silence and discovering, together, what's there when the noise stops.

That's where the real parenting happens. That's where the real humanity lives. And that's what no machine will ever touch.

If this resonates, I'm here. Not to tell you what to do — but to walk this path alongside you.

One conversation. No pressure. No judgment. Just clarity.