Kids using AI to get answers at school. Cheating, or just faster at figuring it out than the adults who wrote the rules? The guardrails are gone, and nobody agrees on who puts them back.

There's a thing about the encyclopedia Britannica. Some kids had one at home. Some had to go to the library. Teachers said only cite approved sources. The kid with the encyclopedia just had more, quietly, without anyone calling it unfair. Every generation does this. The tool changes. The gap stays.

The guardrails didn't disappear with AI. They were always suggestions. The fanciest planes still carry analog instruments because someone decided knowing how to fly matters more than knowing how to follow the GPS. That decision is still the right one. The question is whether we're teaching it.

Topics: kids and AI, artificial intelligence in education, AI cheating, digital learning, parenting and technology

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

Originally aired on 2026-04-17

Kids using AI to get answers at school. Cheating, or just faster at figuring it out than the adults who wrote the rules? The guardrails are gone, and nobody agrees on who puts them back.
There's a thing about the encyclopedia Britannica. Some kids had one at home. Some had to go to the library. Teachers said only cite approved sources. The kid with the encyclopedia just had more, quietly, without anyone calling it unfair. Every generation does this. The tool changes. The gap stays.
The guardrails didn't disappear with AI. They were always suggestions. The fanciest planes still carry analog instruments because someone decided knowing how to fly matters more than knowing how to follow the GPS. That decision is still the right one. The question is whether we're teaching it.
Topics: kids and AI, artificial intelligence in education, AI cheating, digital learning, parenting and technology
GUEST: Mohit Rajhans |<a href="http://thinkstart.ca"> http://thinkstart.ca</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-04-17

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