Parents should broach the AI conversation with their children when they are elementary school-age, before they encounter AI through their friends at school or in other spaces, says Marc Watkins, a lecturer at the University of Mississippi who researches AI and its impact on education. Eva Redamonti for NPR
Eva Redamonti for NPR
Nicholas Munkbhatter started using ChatGPT shortly after the artificial intelligence chatbot was released in late 2022. He was 14 at the time, and he says, “I would use it for almost everything, like math problems.”
At first, Munkbhatter, who is from Sacramento, Calif., thought it was amazing.