Understanding AI
What artificial intelligence is, told at a child's height, why it invents things with complete confidence, and the family rule of checking before believing. There are games for catching its mistakes, a way to tell a generated image from a real one, and numbers that work in class, like what a handful of prompts really costs in power and water.
23 articles
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October 10, 2026
·3 min read 
While You Scroll
Every few months a new app asks for your face: avatars, videos starring you, filters that age you. The trade looks obvious, a selfie for a funny video. It is not: your face is the…
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October 8, 2026
·3 min read While You Scroll
The tricks you were taught, six fingers, garbled text, odd ears, describe the failures of 2023, and today's generators rarely make them. What still works is not in the pixels, it…
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October 6, 2026
·2 min read 
While You Dream
The machine feels nothing, so the please is not for it. But your child is practicing how to speak, and the habits rehearsed with the box are the ones that show up in the playgroun…
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September 27, 2026
·5 min read While You Dream
A child's why gets answered by the AI in four seconds and forgotten in five. If instead of the answer you ask for a twenty-minute experiment with what is in the kitchen, your chil…
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September 23, 2026
·5 min read While You Dream
A role-play prompt turns the AI into a legionary posted to a fort on Hadrian's Wall who answers questions at the dinner table: what he eats, what he carries, what he misses from h…
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September 22, 2026
·4 min read While You Scroll1
A text prompt to Gemini uses a median 0.24 watt-hours and five drops of water, according to Google itself. That is one second of microwave, and the big number is true as well: dat…
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September 19, 2026
·4 min read 
While You Sleep
Your kid says dinner was mid, that a friend has aura and that you are giving unc, and you nod. Here are twelve words doing the rounds this school year, including the one that was…
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September 17, 2026
·3 min read While You Sleep1
The study is real, it comes from the MIT Media Lab and it travels the world under the headline that ChatGPT rots your brain. Not a single child took part: 54 adults aged 18 to 39,…
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September 15, 2026
·3 min read While You Dream
This afternoon the roles swap: your child is the teacher, the AI is the pupil, and the red pen is on the table. Four tasks, a scoreboard and a diploma to print, and what they take…
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September 12, 2026
·2 min read While You Scroll
You can't stop because the app is built so you don't stop: variable rewards, a feed with no ending, and an algorithm that optimises your minutes, not your life. The good news: onc…
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August 22, 2026
·2 min read While You Sleep
The best way for a child to really understand artificial intelligence is to explain it to their grandparents. It takes one afternoon, three exercises and the phone that is already…
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August 5, 2026
·2 min read While You Dream
Why is the sky blue? Where do birds go in winter? Instead of an I'll tell you later, give those questions one hour a week.
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July 26, 2026
·2 min read While You Sleep
Knowledge is getting cheap. Thinking is not. Why maths and physics matter more right now, and what that looks like on an ordinary afternoon.
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July 24, 2026
·1 min read While You Dream
No algorithms, no jargon. A simple way to tell a child what AI is, so they use it to create.
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July 22, 2026
·1 min read While You Dream
Pick your five favourite animals and build an AI quiz with three levels: from your little sister to your parents. You are the quizmaster.
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July 21, 2026
·1 min read While You Scroll
Your teen picks a topic, defends their position, and the AI argues the other side fairly. Training for thinking, not for being right.
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July 13, 2026
·2 min read While You Sleep
AI sometimes invents books, opening hours and facts with total confidence. Turn checking into a house rule, and into a game.
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July 6, 2026
·1 min read While You Scroll
Not to do the work for you, but to set the pace: a three-week plan for a skill you always wanted.
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July 2, 2026
·1 min read While You Scroll
Summer has empty hours. Instead of endless scrolling, here are five ways to begin something of your own with AI in ten minutes.
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June 29, 2026
·1 min read While You Scroll
The trick is not to make AI write your essay. The trick is to make it help you write better yourself.
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June 28, 2026
·1 min read While You Dream
Turn looking at pictures into a detective game. Your child learns to notice when an image was made by a machine.
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June 23, 2026
·1 min read While You Scroll
Let it quiz you, explain, and challenge you. You are still the one who thinks.
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June 17, 2026
·1 min read While You Scroll
AI already imitates voices and faces. Teaching doubt is not about fear, it is a lifelong skill.
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