The Smartest Tool in History Is Making Our Kids Less Intelligent

We need to teach children to interrogate everything. Not with anxiety, but with curiosity. To hold up a piece of information and turn it slowly in the light. To understand that a deepfake isn’t just a technical trick: it’s a weapon, and someone made it for a reason.

To ask not just ‘what does this say?’ but ‘what does this want from me?’

And we need to model this for them.