# Raising Kids in the Age of AI Agents and Chatbots

> MIT Technology Review's September Kids Issue takes on a question many parents are quietly wrestling with: how do you raise children in a world saturated with AI agents and chatbots? The framing is honest about the tension rather than alarmist. One telling detail is that a surprising number of tech workers limit their own children's device use, even as they build these systems for everyone else. The issue sets that against a policy backdrop where Australia has passed a first-of-its-kind social media ban for under-16s and similar rules are emerging elsewhere. Coverage spans AI vulnerabilities, bias in hiring algorithms, and reward hacking, with young people given space to speak for themselves. Editor Mat Honan's throughline is pragmatic: prepare kids for the actual world we have created, not the one we wish we had. For readers thinking past product launches to consequences, it is a thoughtful look at the generation growing up inside this technology.

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## Wortins' read

MIT Technology Review's September Kids Issue takes on a question many parents are quietly wrestling with: how do you raise children in a world saturated with AI agents and chatbots? The framing is honest about the tension rather than alarmist. One telling detail is that a surprising number of tech workers limit their own children's device use, even as they build these systems for everyone else. The issue sets that against a policy backdrop where Australia has passed a first-of-its-kind social media ban for under-16s and similar rules are emerging elsewhere. Coverage spans AI vulnerabilities, bias in hiring algorithms, and reward hacking, with young people given space to speak for themselves. Editor Mat Honan's throughline is pragmatic: prepare kids for the actual world we have created, not the one we wish we had. For readers thinking past product launches to consequences, it is a thoughtful look at the generation growing up inside this technology.

## Source

[Read the full story at MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1141949/editors-letter-september-2026/)

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