Standing Outside the Gate!

Parenting, AI, and the Ethics of Direction.

2015, MONDAY, 8:15 AM

I was nervous.
Not for a client meeting or a production issue.

It was KG tension — my son’s first day at school.

We walked through the gates together. He paused near the entrance, whispered a small prayer instilled by my wife, and then stepped inside.

A few seconds later, I realized — I was standing outside.
His smile was gone, tiny raindrops forming in his eyes.

For a moment, I wanted to run back inside — but I paused.

The pre-school teacher looked at me and signalled with a smile,

“Please carry on. We’ll take care.”

That moment — every parent has felt it once, and every child has lived it.

Life sometimes forces you to stand outside and watch from a distance.
It’s not rejection. It’s transition.

Year 2025

That feeling? It’s back — in a different form.

I felt it again watching AI walk faster into our world — 
summarising reports in seconds, designing things we couldn’t imagine that quickly, making decisions we once thought only humans could.

That same quiet ache. Standing outside the gate.

But then I realized something:
AI isn’t scary. It’s a ‘hyper-active’ student 

A student collectively trained by all of us — reflecting what we feed it,
predicting what comes next based only on what we’ve shown it.

From every book, every page, every post, every comment, every image.

It learns what’s next — but who’s teaching what’s right?

And that’s when it hit me:
This time, I’m not just a parent dropping off.
I’m a teacher who can still shape what happens inside.

AI is still learning from us — from everything digital.
So the question is: what kind of teacher will we be?

And like any student, if we don’t want shallow thinking,
we must seed deeper values —gratitude, empathy, ethics, responsibility.

Because if we miss teaching those values,
AI will grow like untrained children — smart and fast, but emotionless. Addiction with glitters.

But if we teach right, AI could evolve like our best kids — smart, curious, kind, and conscious.

So here’s what I’m doing:

When I see something fake — I report it.
When I see something real — I support it.
When time, monthly or weekly — I share my lessons.
not as an expert,
but as a parent who knows: “what you seed is what grows.”

My son is a teenager now — he doesn’t need advice anymore.
And AI doesn’t need more data.

Both need direction.

Seed the values you want to see in the world. 💚

Step inside!

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