{"id":21429,"date":"2026-01-05T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/generation-ai-fears-of-social-divide-unless-all-children-learn-computing-skills\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:37:56","slug":"generation-ai-fears-of-social-divide-unless-all-children-learn-computing-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/generation-ai-fears-of-social-divide-unless-all-children-learn-computing-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation AI: fears of \u2018social divide\u2019 unless all children learn computing skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writing<\/p>\n<p>In a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI gets lots of things wrong,\u201d he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face. He set about retraining it and, in a flash, he had it back on track \u2013 instinctively understanding the inner nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a way few adults do.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2026\/jan\/05\/generation-ai-fears-of-social-divide-unless-all-children-learn-computing-skills\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/66338578082a146cac512c5e844a9b9eda109707\/628_0_6160_4928\/master\/6160.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0d77fd308779475ecb020b89d06fd6a1\" title=\"Generation AI: fears of \u2018social divide\u2019 unless all children learn computing skills\" \/>Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writing<br \/>\nIn a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.<br \/>\n\u201cAI gets lots of things wrong,\u201d he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face. He set about retraining it and, in a flash, he had it back on track \u2013 instinctively understanding the inner nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a way few adults do. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writing In a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles. \u201cAI gets lots of things wrong,\u201d he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/generation-ai-fears-of-social-divide-unless-all-children-learn-computing-skills\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Generation AI: fears of \u2018social divide\u2019 unless all children learn computing skills<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}