Again a child knowing how to open Snapchat and playing with filters, knowing how to use TikTok and the current hip lingo, knowing how to install apps from an app store, knowing how to use products as intended is meaningless. You’re grandfather likely understood how to use the technology of his youth, and he struggles with today’s technology.

If you don’t understand the underlying technology of today, you’ll struggle with the presentation options of tomorrow when you’re old.

You don’t have to know how to repair a computer, that’s not my point. Understanding how to repair is understanding how it works, understanding that it’s a computer, understanding the role of storage and memory, understanding how the technology works and not just how to navigate today’s UI shipped by the company that made a particular product.

Growing up with AI without understanding how it works isn’t a valuable skill, on the contrary, it prevents acquiring critical thinking skills.