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ALT Who is to blame when an algorithm almost freezes three people to death, the AI that gave the bad directions, or the climbers who actually believed it?" Three California college students recently had to be rescued from Mount Shasta after using Google Gemini to plan their ascent. The AI framed the trek as an 8-hour trip. The ascent alone took 16 hours. Believing the 8-hour estimate, they packed minimal food, water, warm clothing, and zero emergency shelter. The group spent a freezing night stranded at 11,000 feet before search and rescue reached them the following morning. As one of the climbers later admitted, “We relied too much on AI rather than our own critical thinking,” but it begs the question.

ALT New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is right. Young children don't need AI teachers, but here's the catch. I do believe in AI teachers, especially in certain circumstances. Imagine: instead of going and sitting in a college course with hundreds of other students, you throw on a pair of goggles and an AI teacher teaches you. Everything is specifically designed for you. The pace, the examples, the visuals. You can interrupt at any time. Imagine how much more quickly you could learn. But with AI teachers, you lose something - something very important at a young age. You lose the following: 1. Diverse Perspectives & Cultural Fluency 2. Respect for others and how to laugh, play, and just be a kid. 3. How to deal with bullies, how to say no, how to set & respect boundaries. Without getting dirty, you don't build your immune system. Without conflict with peers, you never learn impulse management or how to tolerate discomfort. There are ways to manage these things, but there's so much mor