When I was growing up, my father and I often dreamed of writing a story together called “The Day Nobody Went to Disneyland.” The premise was simple: one day, the weather is so perfect that everyone decides to skip visiting the park, expecting it to be overcrowded. My dad, who shared that thought, decided to take me anyway. When we arrived, the park was empty—no one else had the courage to go. We had everything to ourselves: the rides, the food, the shows. I loved the idea of writing that story. But life got in the way. We never wrote it. Years passed, and the idea faded until, thirty years later, it resurfaced during a family dinner with my children. My oldest daughter was intrigued and wanted to hear the full story. We used ChatGPT to help write it in the style of Dr. Seuss. Though the AI version had some issues—like American slang and odd phrasing—it sparked a fun evening of editing and creativity. It was a small but meaningful step toward realizing a dream I had long forgotten. As a parent of three young children, I’ve come to see the impact of AI on our lives in a deeply personal way. My wife and I were recently on a road trip with the kids, and we stumbled across a podcast called History’s Not Boring, which we all enjoyed. It was narrated by two children, which made us curious—how were they selected? How did they balance school with this work? When I checked the website, I found out that the children didn’t exist. The podcast was entirely created by AI. This revelation was both surprising and unsettling. It showed how AI could create high-quality content, but also raised questions about the future of work, creativity, and even the value of human effort. For my wife, a documentary maker, it was a wake-up call. Here was a product that could have taken a team weeks to make, now created in an instant by a machine. Today, the question on everyone’s mind is: what should our children be preparing for? Teachers are struggling to adapt their methods as AI becomes more capable. Parents are watching their children use AI to solve problems and answer questions, leaving them unsure of what their kids truly understand. Employers are questioning whether traditional education, with its exams and coursework, still reflects what young people can do. Yet, trying to stop or ban AI is not the answer. The world our children will inherit will be vastly different from the one we knew. If we don’t change how we educate them, we risk leaving them unprepared. If AI is making learning “too easy,” the challenge lies with us—how do we make it more challenging, more meaningful? The problem with AI is that it makes traditional ideas of “future-proofing” skills outdated. For example, in 2013, the UK government encouraged schools to teach coding to prepare children for the future. But now, AI can write code more efficiently than most humans. This means the skills we once believed would protect children from technological change are no longer as relevant. Instead of trying to predict the future, we should focus on what we know for sure: the future will be full of powerful technologies, and we need to prepare our children to use them. This means teaching them to use AI, while still ensuring they understand the basics. As one British professor, Wilfred Halliday Cockcroft, once suggested, we should teach both with and without AI, and test both. This way, students can build strong foundations while learning to use technology wisely. In the end, the key is imagination. AI is limited only by our ability to think creatively. Whether it’s using AI to create educational games for children or developing interactive tools for learning literature, the possibilities are endless. We should embrace these tools, not fear them. The future will not be defined by the technology itself, but by how we use it. As we look ahead, it is the next generation—our children—who will help us imagine what AI can achieve. After all, as the poet Louise Glück wrote, “We look at the world once in childhood, the rest is memory.” It is in that moment of wonder and curiosity that the future will be shaped.