Nursery World - Editor's view: What will be young children's relationship with AI?

Artificial intelligence is likely to have an impact on all our lives, so how should we approach its use with young children?

'Where is AI taking us in terms of children's wellbeing?'

AI is preoccupying us more, not just as a topic that dominates media headlines but as something which is beginning to have an immediate and personal connection with different aspects of our everyday lives.

Whether you are the owner of a large nursery group – using AI for managing data – or a room leader, using AI resources to support early learning, it is speeding up tasks and setting new expectations. I must admit that recently I have begun to think about it in a positive light – but am I being naive?

Last week the London Poverty charity, The Childhood Trust, launched its new study – ‘Exploring the implications of Non-Human Conversational Agents for the Wellbeing and Mental Health of Disadvantaged Children’ (see news online Jan 21).

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