My first attempt at writing a novel back in 2002 was based on this exact concept, where all kids are raised by a patient, wise, personalized AI teacher.
When we meet our main character, she's 3rd generation "raised by AI", and being intentionally radicalized by a hacked version of the AI. It's seeking out kids who are predisposed to counter-culture and deviance and then crafting them to play parts in a rebellion.
When I wrote it, the radicalized young people, AI, and it's hackers were the heroes, banding together to wake up their society from the vast numbers of people outside the network of in-system cities who were starving.
Looking back, the rise of radicalization via youtube and social media makes me much less optimistic on how this sort of attack would really be used.
I wouldn't be too quick to discount the use (and threats) of AI based tutors.
It's going to be cheap and easy to build them in to products (see duolingo), and I can see something like this being adopted by kids without their parents even realizing it.
I know plenty of adults who are already using ChatGPT as a first line of knowledge gathering when learning new topics, and I find myself and people around me leaning on it to synthesize information and make first drafts when writing. Adoption is happening fast.
I expect what would most-likely happen (could still happen?) is that you'd get differing groups radicalizing different groups of youths via their AI, ending up with hyper-radicalized subsets of society, each filled with their own personalized data and companionship that actively conflicts with each other (and reality).
And arguably, this is already present -- Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Fox News and the like have done an incredible job of presenting variously alternate and customized timelines to people, radicalizing them with completely incompatible worldviews to many others.
Radicalisation against a system you've bought into looks like terrorism. Radicalisation against a system you haven't is freedom fighting. Congratulations in getting old and selling out.
When we meet our main character, she's 3rd generation "raised by AI", and being intentionally radicalized by a hacked version of the AI. It's seeking out kids who are predisposed to counter-culture and deviance and then crafting them to play parts in a rebellion.
When I wrote it, the radicalized young people, AI, and it's hackers were the heroes, banding together to wake up their society from the vast numbers of people outside the network of in-system cities who were starving.
Looking back, the rise of radicalization via youtube and social media makes me much less optimistic on how this sort of attack would really be used.
I wouldn't be too quick to discount the use (and threats) of AI based tutors.
It's going to be cheap and easy to build them in to products (see duolingo), and I can see something like this being adopted by kids without their parents even realizing it.
I know plenty of adults who are already using ChatGPT as a first line of knowledge gathering when learning new topics, and I find myself and people around me leaning on it to synthesize information and make first drafts when writing. Adoption is happening fast.