[klyrs]

As a parent, I'm with you. But parenthood sucks. From day one, that person you're "responsible for" is actually a separate entity with its own thoughts and bodily autonomy.

And here they are, growing up with this technology, entirely unlike anything available to us in our childhoods. But one thing remains the same: if we shut them out altogether, they'll route around us and find it on their own.

A teetotaler myself, but the "not one drop" mentality doesn't really make a ton of sense to me. Not because I want my kid using AI or alcohol, but I'd rather him try it under my watch than go out and find it on his own.

But if this is a feature that parental controls cannot limit, then I honestly don't know what to say other than, perhaps we're fucked as a society.

[seanmcdirmid]

Ya, the other thing is that we need to gradually give them freedom and have them make some recoverable mistakes under our watch, or they could go straight from sheltered kid to adult in the world on their own. By 16, they should have 75% of the freedom of an adult, because they’ll have 100% at 18.