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Artificial intelligence (AI) is thriving in every sector, including corporate and education. However, it has posed a serious concern related to a decline in human cognitive growth, as many today count on AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and others to customise emails, resolve conflicts in relationships, among other things.
Dr Samir Dalwai, a noted developmental and behavioural paediatrician, recently talked about how AI is affecting children, and how a lack of social engagement is triggering anxiety issues among them.
“With the advent of AI, children or infants fail to make a distinction between a real and a fake image or video,” Dr Dalwai said while speaking on the podcast Figuring Out with Raj Shamani, and added that “parents are failing to develop the reality perception of their kids.”
“Rational thinking, communication, and delayed gratification are not inborn. You need to develop them. You have the genes, but they need to be kindled. If you are doing all this in AI, I fear that the actual reality of children versus imagination, that will not happen,” he added.
Emphasising how children are falling for virtual reality, Dr Dalwai said, “Earlier, solitary confinement was the punishment, and now you are giving it to your (parents) children at home. A lack of human engagement is a bigger problem than unemployment. What’s the point of being employed when you lack in human communication?”.
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