When one of my clients told me how her children’s school had marked Reconciliation Week here in Australia, it planted the seed for this episode. The school could have easily chosen the convenient and easy path of acknowledging and recognising the week but instead they chose to build relationship. This got me thinking about who is really shaping the way our children come to understand race, history, difference and belonging.
This episode is about raising anti-racist kids in a world where 79% of Australian children aged 10 to 17 years old have already used AI, where the homework helper can slowly begin to feel like a friend and where the first answer a machine offers can look like the whole truth. I bring in the work of Howard Stevenson, Abeba Birhane, Joy Buolamwini and Deborah Raji as well as Palawa scholar Maggie Walter, to explore why teaching our children to be kind to everyone falls short on it’s own.
I also share the questions I ask my own daughter at the kitchen table, the ones that help a child notice whose story is missing from the answer in front of them, because raising racially aware children in an AI world begins, the way it always has, with the kind of adults we are willing to become.
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