‘I want him to be prepared’: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI

Jules White used to believe his 11-year-old son needed to know how to code to be successful. Now, though, the Vanderbilt computer science professor says it’s more crucial for James to learn a new, more useful skill: how to prompt artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, White has been showing his son the ropes of generative…