Will artificial intelligence become a parent of a helicopter?

Participated in Brett Smith.

You wake up to a nice voice suggesting that it is time to wake up, and with non -fatal eyes, scroll through outfits on your phone. On the basement, breakfast is waiting. The same sound is played through your schedule and complements your appearance. You can have a lunch, a bottle, and enter a self-driving car. With the car withdrawal, your phone screen locks. “Now it may be a suitable time to practice contemplation A routine, “The voice says.

At work, artificial intelligence companion suggests this plan, achieves your mood, and encourages you to moisturize. Every time you have a problem, you ask for help. After lunch, sensing that you are tired, artificial intelligence suggests a nap. At 5 pm, it congratulates you on a fruitful day and pushes you home.

Soon, artificial intelligence may guide us during life with great efficiency, armed with the knowledge attention. It will not only help us; He will take care of us.

In this future, we will tend to Amnesty International the way the child tends to a parent – to help manage options, challenges and daily routine. It is now time for a question not only about the type of care provider we create, but it is important, how we can, like children, remain curious, able and independent, instead of stuck in a state of detained development.

The paradoxical effort

At first glance, there seems to be a small aspect of artificial intelligence aides which makes life easier. Like all living things, Humans avoid effort When it is possible. We are looking for a place near the supermarket entrance, just to spare ourselves a short distance through the parking lot.

But we are also looking for effort when it’s not necessary. We climb mountains, deal with crossed puzzles, and practice tools, even with no intention to join a band. This puzzle – why we hate both and the value of the effort – is what is called Paradox.

At a spacious calibration, the paradox of the voltage can lead to unwanted results. Learning and mastery requires hard work, however we are often pulled into school shortcuts. Physics students at Harvard University Prefer negative lectures To solve active problems in the separation, although they learn less in these settings.

Ironically, the more difficult the work is to get something, the more we appreciate it. This phenomenon is called IKEA effect Because it explains why we love the book shelf that we collected ourselves and not the same thing on Facebook The market. The IKEA effect extends beyond Scandinavian modernist furniture. It has been observed in Children do not exceed the age of 5 yearsand Through culturesAnd Even in animals Like rodents and locusts. The effort itself can Drink tasks in the senseEven this worldly, such as calculating symbols or colors.

If artificial intelligence systems are able to remove friction from daily life – expected needs, solve problems, and complete tasks before we try – we may look at the same struggles that help us to grow and find meaning. To understand how we can avoid this fate, we move to human engineers incentivizeCare providers.

Care providers as a guide

Humans are unique between animals to time, and how they depend on caregivers. Although children are useless to survive, the development psychologist Alison Jobnik indicates that they were “adapted distinctively to learn.” This evolutionary comparison-the accreditation that extends against rich cognitive growth-provokes the success of our gender.

Children’s care providers remain safe, direct their attention, and go through cultural knowledge, which helps children focus their efforts. It is also modeling how and when to try hard. My research shows that one -year -old children watch adults still continue in difficult tasks. More vulnerable to continuing themselves On new tasks. But care providers walk an accurate line: support growth without strangling it.

Increasingly, parents wander around this line. The researchers have documented the high “excess”, as adults routinely undertake the appropriate tasks in terms of development, such as linking the first grade shoes or writing a university article for high school high schools.

Despite the goodwill, these interventions can undermine the motivation. We found that when adults intervene very quickly, Pre -school students remain less In future challenges. When we pick up their sense of independence and efficiency, children begin to avoid effort.

Artificial intelligence care

New technologies have already expanded the development stage of human life. Agriculture, manufacturing and globalization enables more people to follow educationTest startups, wait longer to find partners and start families. But artificial intelligence brings the possibility of a deeper transformation: not only extending childhoodBut expansion Providing care Through our entire life.

On the one hand, this can be disastrous. Like one of the parents of the helicopter, AI can wear our basic needs for autonomy, efficiency and communication. actually, Dating AI apps as confrontation partners – partners, start conversations, and even crafting FLERTY messages. For many, this is a welcome escape from the embarrassment of flirting. But the friction of the first date makes us below the surface of the user profile and more in connection with ourselves. It may not only make us avoid the voltage in dating, less interesting partners, but it can also direct society towards a high -tech version of the arrangement marriage.

On the other hand, the presentation of long care is what made our race unique in the first place, and artificial intelligence may become a new type of guide. Imagine the mathematics student who asks, “When will I need this in real life?” Amnesty International teacher can respond immediately with an important context and examples, depending on the student’s interests, background or Professional life Goals. And when the student sets himself a wall in homework to calculate the differentiation, the teacher can offer enough scaffold to help them move forward, without assuming.

You might ask, “Do we even need to learn to calculate the differentiation and integration in a world in which Amnesty International can do everything for us?” My husband and co -author, who teaches mathematics in Yale, He will discuss this point happily. But here, we will not argue what we should learn in the future. As any parents know, children find their own paths anyway. This is related to the quality of the trip, which depends on the support we receive along the way.

What happens after that will not be determined by the strength of technology alone. Our future depends on the relationship we build with these systems, and whether we can allow them to take care of us without assuming them. At this moment of his childhood of artificial intelligence, we must continue to struggle, experiment and enjoy the long path because it is our growth that gives the meaning of life.