[AnimalMuppet]

"Lacking certainty" seems to me to be very different from "age of AI" (unless you mean that AI gives confident answers of uncertain truthfulness).

There are two problems that you should address that I see.

First, how do you teach them not to believe everything an AI says? Well, how do you teach them not to believe everything a politician says? An advertiser? A peer? Do that with AI, too. It's not a new problem.

Second, how do you keep them from being emotionally attached to an AI? Give them hugs. Give them eye contact. Give them genuine attention from an actual human - lots of it - and pray that it's enough.

[RetroTechie]

> Second, how do you keep them from being emotionally attached to an AI?

You can't. We (including people's kids) will at some point, to some degree, become emotionally attached to an AI.

The thing is to be clear about what that 'friendship' does for you, what you put in & what you get out of it. Be aware of downsides, privacy issues, etc. And then: enjoy.

On the flip side, such bonds are not exclusive with human-human bonding. You can have both. So hug your kids often while they play with their AI-powered toy doggie.

[scarface_74]

Every modern chatbot has a web search option. With ChatGPT you tell it to “verify that” and it provides live web results.

For mathematics, you tell if to “verify that with Python” and you check the code it runs.

[MichaelMoser123]

> First, how do you teach them not to believe everything an AI says?

critical thinking is a thing, certainly. I am thankful to my late father, for having me taught the art of questioning stuff.