No room for youth

“The empire [of artificial intelligence] is being built by people who treat the world as a spreadsheet, where the ‘human condition’ is reduced to a set of computable variables. In the rooms where the most foundational decisions about our future are made, the child is not present. The needs of a developing mind, the right to privacy, and the importance of a slow, non-optimized childhood are missing from the code, because the architects are optimized for a world that has no room for the ‘unproductive’ vulnerability of youth.”