Your children will grow up alongside systems that can do their homework, imitate their friends, and compete for every minute of their attention. The response the moment invites — panic or surrender — serves them equally badly.

This course works through what the evidence actually supports: which capabilities keep their value as machines improve; what attention and judgement need to develop, and what disrupts them; how to set family rules that survive contact with real teenagers; and how to talk about these systems honestly at every age — including the questions about minds and meaning that children raise before the philosophers are ready.