The world just watched some of the most sophisticated AI systems ever built require careful sandboxing, monitored, bounded, tested before they were trusted with real consequences. That should tell us something we haven't fully absorbed yet: if systems built by the most capable engineers on Earth need boundaries and oversight, unsupervised human beings navigating the same technology need them even more. Not just children. Employees learning to use AI at work. Professionals le

Every generation inherits a tool it did not build and cannot fully explain. Fire. The printing press. The internet. Each one arrived carrying both a promise and a debt, the promise of what it could do, and the debt owed by anyone who never learned to wield it. Artificial intelligence is the largest of these tools yet, and it did not wait for permission. It is already inside the classroom, the group chat, the college essay, the doctor's office, the boardroom. A generation is