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“Baby Grok” and the Brain Drain: AI, Children, and the New Education Agenda
The New American ^ | July 22, 2025 | Veronika Kyrylenko

Posted on 07/22/2025 2:07:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Elon Musk just announced that his AI empire will soon speak directly to your children.

On Saturday, he posted a short but pointed message on X:

We’re going to make Baby Grok @xAI, an app dedicated to kid-friendly content.

According to Fox News, Baby Grok will be a simplified version of the Grok AI chatbot. The app is being designed for “safe and educational interactions with children.” No technical details have been released, but the goal is obvious: to embed AI into the early stages of childhood development.

AI as “Educational” Tool

In AI’s current PR cycle, the word “educational” carries magical powers. Developers and advocates pitch large language models (LLMs) as tireless digital tutors, offering personalized pacing, infinite patience, and boundless knowledge. Who could say no to that?

For instance, according to a recent paper by University of Birmingham professor Russell Beale, LLMs are “opening exciting avenues in education” by enabling forms of instruction that were previously impossible. Unlike old educational software, which relied on canned responses, today’s AI can hold open-ended, context-rich conversations. This, Beale argues, makes them function more like flexible instructors than static tools.

But there’s a difference between information and understanding. Especially when the audience is still forming neural pathways.

“Kid-friendly” suggests safety and value. But who defines either? In the case of Baby Grok, there’s yet no information of involvement from educators, developmental psychologists, or neuroscientists. No long-term studies. No ethical review boards. Just vibes and private capital chasing the next big thing in digital child-rearing.

Still, the narrative is spreading: If AI can talk to your child, it can teach them, and likely do so more efficiently than parents or other human educators. But before we hand over the lesson plan, we might want to...

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: ai; babygrok

1 posted on 07/22/2025 2:07:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How long before it’s pushing the gay/trans agenda is simple kid language?


2 posted on 07/22/2025 2:12:36 PM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How long before we see Baby Fentanyl?


3 posted on 07/22/2025 2:15:11 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Elon Musk just announced that his AI empire will soon speak directly to your children.

Not unless you allow it.

They are your kids. It is up to you to raise them.

4 posted on 07/22/2025 2:15:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The first in his new Propoganda Line


5 posted on 07/22/2025 2:22:04 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

True story-The Pied Piper of Hamlin.

What else could it be?


6 posted on 07/22/2025 2:22:19 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
But there’s a difference between information and understanding. Especially when the audience is still forming neural pathways.

There is also a difference between an AI/LLM and a brainwashed idiot public school teacher.

7 posted on 07/22/2025 2:25:29 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I would keep AI in a box, but that is too late. Don’t let it anywhere near kids. They, of course will, but you have been forewarned.

People barely do their own thinking now.

Just as we make kids learn their addition and subtraction facts before allowing them to use calculators, we should hide AI from them until they can think independently.


8 posted on 07/22/2025 2:40:20 PM PDT by Whatever Works (The real power lies in who counts the votes and controls the teleprompter.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m so glad I was 3 in 1970, 13 in 1980 and 23 in 1990.
Perfect timing..THANKS MOM!!!


9 posted on 07/22/2025 2:46:30 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
When I was a kid, we learned the Multiplication Table.

Today, kids rely on calculators.

With AI, kids will no longer compose essays. They were already cutting & pasting from the internet. But now they won't even do that.

If you can't do basic math in your head, if you can't take facts from outside sources and compose an argument in your own words, then you can't think.

10 posted on 07/22/2025 3:07:48 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Brainwashing to be good little tech slaves.


11 posted on 07/22/2025 4:59:28 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Whatever Works

It will be embedded on all phones and computers eventually.


12 posted on 07/22/2025 5:01:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Whatever Works
People barely do their own thinking now.

I'm watching "Ow! My balls!" on TV right now.

13 posted on 07/22/2025 5:03:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In 15 years, kids and young adults will be spending most of their time with their AIP (AI “pal”) on their devices (phone, glasses, ear buds, etc.) and interact with other humans as little as possible, while the wealthy “show offs” will be accompanied 24/7 by their AID (AI Droid) that will be their pal and protector.


14 posted on 07/22/2025 5:05:57 PM PDT by GLDNGUN
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In 15 years, kids and young adults will be spending most of their time with their AIP (AI “pal”) on their devices (phone, glasses, ear buds, etc.) and interact with other humans as little as possible

In 50 years, all Americans will be Orthodox Jews, Amish or Muslims.

15 posted on 07/22/2025 5:15:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Whatever Works
People barely do their own thinking now.

Not in my experience. I use AI at work and some at home, and I have never thought so much or so hard in my life.

16 posted on 07/22/2025 5:52:27 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Lazamataz

You are an adult. Kids will not think. They will rely upon it. Therein lies the difference.


17 posted on 07/22/2025 6:03:16 PM PDT by Whatever Works (The real power lies in who counts the votes and controls the teleprompter.)
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To: Whatever Works
You are an adult.

Boy, I've got you fooled. 😊

18 posted on 07/22/2025 6:13:36 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Whatever Works
we should hide AI from them until they can think independently.

Harvard freshmen need remedial math. More than half of high school students do not perform at grade level.

Set the age for Grok at 75 and maybe most will benefit.

19 posted on 07/22/2025 6:24:10 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: GLDNGUN
Imported H1B job takers are the original AI chat bots, going through all the motions but producing nothing of value, and female masculinists are the original AI wives, going through all the motions but producing no children. So most of the damage AI will be inflicting on the West has already been accomplished. Just the actors are changing.

Everyone worries about a Skynet ending for mankind, but our demise might actually come from our new artificial best friends. They will artificially love us to death.

20 posted on 07/22/2025 6:33:01 PM PDT by Reeses
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