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‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Hotter take: "individual responsibility" is propaganda from the corporations that sell dangerous products and the politicians they have contracts with.
There's nothing wrong with selling guns, the problem is people who use guns irresponsibly, say the gun companies.
There's nothing wrong with prescribing opioids for everything, the problem is people who can't control themselves and get themselves addicted, say the pharmaceutical companies.
And in this case, when there's a massive propaganda campaign trying to sell AI as an educational tool and good for children, it just feels wrong to blame a parent for using an AI tool the way it was marketed for use.
We're going to encourage you to use this dangerous tool without warning you of the risks? And if you or your children take harm from it we're going to blame you for using it wrong? Never mind individual responsibility, what happened to corporate responsibility?
Corporate responsibility is likely never going to happen unfortunately, so long as those currently in power continue to consolidate it. Unless one or more of them suffer actual consequences for their negligence, we're just going to keep seeing more of the same.
A populace that is informed of how and why these corporations weasel around punishments is key to responsible decision making. Unfortunately, we don't have that yet either.
The trick is to keep talking about corporate responsibility - and so making people aware of how corporations avoid it, and normalizing the idea that corporations have responsibility - instead of dismissing it with discouraging phrases like "it'll never happen".
Hope is hard. That's why it's so important.