Kids and AI is not a novelty story anymore. It's baked in. The resume, the social post, the cover letter, the assignment, the car that got fixed on a Tuesday afternoon with a chatbot and a socket wrench. This generation didn't grow up watching AI arrive. They grew up inside it, and the gap between that experience and what most adults picture is the whole conversation.

Fifty-nine percent of teenagers said AI cheating is happening at their school, and that figure only counts the ones who said so. Academic sanctions in universities are landing for AI-assisted editing, not just writing. And still, the adoption keeps going. Not because kids are reckless but because the utility is real, the rules are vague, and nobody is waiting around for the guardrails to catch up.

This isn't a warning about what's coming. It's a map of what's already here, and what it means for the workforce, the classroom, and the next conversation a parent has with a kid who answers "not really" when asked if they're using 

Topics: kids and AI, AI cheating, AI literacy, academic integrity, AI native generation

GUEST: Mohit Rajhans | http://thinkstart.ca

Originally aired on 2026-03-20