Tag: Cultural Transmission

2 articles

Ethics & Society

Children Learn to Sort People. AI Never Stopped.

Children naturally develop in-group and out-group thinking — but they also develop the capacity to question it. AI systems trained on human data inherit our social categories without that corrective arc. Here's why that gap should concern everyone building systems that affect children's lives.

Jules Okafor·March 25, 2026

Embodied Cognition & AI

AI Can Be Trained. Can It Be Taught?

Children are built to extract general principles from ostensive instruction — an evolved system that comes online at 9 months. AI systems can be trained on feedback, but they can't truly be taught. Here's the gap that matters most for every classroom deploying AI right now.

Raf Delgado·March 18, 2026