When we find something valuable, what exactly do we value? Its usefulness, its beauty, its rarity, or the effort of the person who made it may all play a part. Sometimes what matters most is the place it holds in our lives. The same object can seem ordinary to someone else and be irreplaceable to us. Value takes shape through our relationship with something as much as through its qualities. Artificial intelligence is making us reconsider that relationship. Many results we onc

Recently, I came across a video on social media. A mother was speaking about the death of her 19-year-old son, Sam, and the conversations he had had with ChatGPT before he died. According to his mother, Sam had consulted ChatGPT about substances he was using, and one of the responses had described an unsafe use as safe. What stayed with me after watching the video was not so much the details of the case, but a different question: As we teach children and young people how to u

We are gradually getting used to artificial intelligence working faster than humans, processing more information, and producing better results in certain domains. Much of the discussion so far has revolved around this growing capability: how accurate the models are, what tasks they can perform, which professions they may transform, and where human involvement will continue to matter. But the capabilities artificial intelligence is beginning to demonstrate in scientific resear

One of the most thought-provoking ideas discussed in Tech On Air’s Digital Love and the Relationship Deadlock, featuring journalist and author Şebnem Burcuoğlu, was the concept of an “AI blind date.” Burcuoğlu described this emerging model of meeting people with a particularly fitting phrase: “digital matchmaking,” or, more literally, a digital version of the traditional Turkish practice of introducing two people believed to be a suitable match. In traditional matchmaking, fa

When we talk about what artificial intelligence might bring to education, we often assume that teachers and students already have access to these tools. We tend to think that anyone with an internet connection and a computer or smartphone is starting from the same place. Yet having access to a technology is not the same as being able to benefit from it. At its most basic, the digital divide refers to inequalities in people’s ability to access digital technologies, use them an

They should learn not only how to use AI, but also when and how to use it—and how to manage their own thinking and learning while working with it. Artificial intelligence is already changing the way young people learn. It can explain a subject, answer questions, suggest ideas, edit texts and produce a polished assignment within seconds. All of this offers opportunities to make learning easier. But it also raises an important question: When a task is complete, has the young pe

We need to teach children not only how to use AI, but also how to understand and question it—and how to preserve their own thinking while working with it. Children encounter artificial intelligence much earlier than we might think. AI systems may be at work when videos are recommended to them, search results are ranked, photographs are altered, the difficulty level of games is adjusted, and educational apps assess their performance. With the spread of generative AI tools, the

You do not need to hand a chatbot to a four- to seven-year-old child to teach them about artificial intelligence. In fact, at this age, the best place to begin is often away from a screen. Children do not yet need to understand concepts such as “algorithms,” “data,” or “machine learning.” It is far more valuable for them to learn to recognize a pattern, predict what might come next, compare two possibilities, understand that an answer can be wrong, and ask, “How do we know th

Monika Kim’s novel The Eyes Are the Best Part opens with the sentence, “Umma tells me that the eyes are the best part.” When translating the novel into Turkish, I rendered this as, “Umma, bana gözlerinin en güzel yeri olduğunu söyler.” At first glance, translating “Umma” as annem, or “my mother,” might have seemed like the most natural choice. The Korean word means mother and its Turkish equivalent was clear. Yet on the same page, only a few sentences apart, the same woman wa