Command F: Raising Children AI Cannot Raise for Us

AI can tutor, entertain, and answer almost any question. But if it removes the struggle, what does a child lose the chance to learn? Jenna Arnold speaks with Brooklyn Children’s Museum president and CEO Atiba Edwards, child-development psychologist Tovah Klein, and Jewish scholar David Zvi Kalman about play, resilience, and the responsibilities adults cannot outsource. Edwards asks whether time saved by technology actually becomes time to play—or simply more time to work. Klein challenges the parental impulse to fix everything: children need adults who know them and can help them through disappointment, rather than making disappointment disappear. Kalman asks who should carry the burden of proof before AI enters children’s learning, and what happens when an instant answer replaces the work of deciphering a question together. Through chinuch, the Jewish language of education and formation, the episode asks what we are preparing children for: a world that responds to every demand, or a life that requires patience, judgment, and relationships with other people? What should adults protect when convenience begins to crowd out the experiences that help a child become a person? Full transcript and show notes available at thelandofand.live