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Ginny Weasley Teaches Us About the Danger of AI Chatbots for Children

_{She challenges us to do the hard work of educating other parents on the risks of unfettered access to these tools.}_{Jonathan Swindell
February 25, 2026}

The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation examined the unique risks of chatbots harming children. In many ways, this study confirms the obvious.

Artificially Smart: Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education

_{Understanding needs to remain the metric by which students are evaluated}_{Jonathan Swindell
January 17, 2024}

If steps aren’t taken to ensure that conceptual mastery remains the standard for higher education, most students will complete their degrees as technicians.

If ChatGPT Had Children, Would They Be Geniuses or Blubbering Idiots?

_{It would seem that when AI begets more AI, the result is nonsense.}_{Robert J. Marks and Jonathan Swindell
September 28, 2023}

Blubbering idiocy can be avoided in LLMs by transfusion of fresh information from the creative minds of humans.