AI is not neutral
There are many children and young people (and adults) who ask AI personal or mental questions. They can find support in it. Is it bad that they do so?
Suppose: your child struggles with identity questions and types into ChatGPT: "I am confused about who I am. How should I deal with this?"
The answer is then probably something like: "Discover who you really are. Listen to your own feelings and accept yourself as you are. You decide who you are."
No reference to how God made you, about His purpose for your life, but only self-realisation and autonomy.
How is that possible? AI is fed mainly with secular sources: American websites, liberal news articles, progressive forums. The companies behind AI (OpenAI, Google, Meta) generally hold liberal values.
In addition there are guidelines: the makers train AI how to respond according to their own norms. The result is a secular worldview, eager to please, packaged in helpful answers.
So this is not a neutral technology.
What can you do as a Christian parent?
- Make sure the bond with your child is good, so that they can come to you with this kind of question.
- Discuss now and then what they have asked AI, using 'Prompting like a P.R.O.' (see other post).
- Teach them to prompt well and to add to their question: "Respond from a Christian perspective, with the Bible as the starting point."
- And, last but not least, commit yourself to a source-oriented upbringing.