Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills
In a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles. “AI gets lots of things wrong,” he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face. He set about retraining it and, in a flash, he had it back on track – instinctively understanding the inner nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a way few adults do. His friends from the St Paul’s C of E primary school coding club tapped away to build their own AIs with similar dexterit…
On the other hand, there could be a cadre of AI illiterates who risk social disempowerment.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-01-05
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