Comment by ItsBob
10 hours ago
They worry me. A lot.
My son is 15 and I use Google Family Link to control what he does on his phone: it's pretty open for the most part (I receive notifications of installs) but Gemini is a hard-ban.
We've spoken at length of the dangers.
He says his pals use LLMs frequently and I suspect that's the reason for their test scores: some of them are in the 20% - 40% range for tests whereas my son is 80%+ because he studies past-papers and answers questions in his revision.
I worry for the future coz you can be sure that the AI providers don't care if a schoolchild is using their LLM to answer the homework questions.
Did your son behave in a way for that to be installed or did you do it by default?
> Gemini is a hard-ban.
Sounds like you would hard-ban your son from using Internet if it was only introduced 5 years ago
Or a calculator. Oh wait, I hard ban my 8 and 11 year old kids from using a calculator. I wonder why.
That... is not a good idea.
Inexpensive calculators were relatively new when I was that age, and I learned so much just playing with them.