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AI education researcher Randy Williams has spent years studying how kids interact with smart toys,

and what she's found should make every parent stop and think.

What happens when technology becomes a black box and we stop being able to see what's going on inside?

We've hidden the machine behind frictionless interfaces, beneath friendly voices, and inside children's toys.

Brandy's research shows that kids aren't just using these devices.

They're forming genuine emotional bonds with them, often trusting them more than they trust

themselves. Her talk offers solutions for what to do about it. We need to raise a generation of

children who know that they are the ones who get to write and even rewrite

the rules of AI. What children need is a model of what it means to be a curious user of AI.

They need someone who will sit down with them, explore the machine, poke at its limits, challenge

its responses, and most importantly, dare to rewrite its rules.

The approach involves a Lego robot, a game of rock paper scissors, and a little well-placed

sabotage. Stick around after the talk. We've got both a brief Q&A between TED podcast host

Chris Duffy and Randy and a curator's corner segment with Ted's Chloe Shoshop

Brooks, who shares a few more thoughts on what it was like to work with Randy. It's all coming

up right after a short break. And now our TED Talk of the Day.

In the 1940s, the radio was a transformative technology.

But it wasn't an immediate hit.

That's because the radios of the early 1900s looked like unwieldy contraptions of exposed wires

and glowing vacuum tubes like a science fair project gone wrong. And it wasn't until 1929 when

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