Because I'm me and this is how we do parenting and family, Teen2 and I then had a much fuller conversation about deskilling and how "wages" are the actual problem AI investment is trying to "solve," along with my passionate witness toward what learning to write at this age gets you. Kid is fortunately already pretty committed as a writer- he has discovered this magic and loves the power he feels with it- so this is more of a "don't lose the path" moment.
But friends, NO ONE is gonna have this talk with your kids if you don't.
They are just being relentlessly pressured and their role models are themselves pressured and have all of the ambivalent moral commitments and institutional confusion that the last two decades have sown