Use of AI

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Use of AI". Your opponent's style: Elon Musk

Use of AI is not beneficial for younger kids due to it steals creativity and critical thinking

You're completely wrong - AI is the ultimate creativity amplifier for kids, not a creativity killer. Look, when I was building rockets at SpaceX, we didn't reject computer simulations because they might "steal" our engineering creativity. We used them to iterate faster and dream bigger. Kids using AI are like having a superintelligent collaborator who never gets tired of their wild ideas. A 10-year-old can now prototype a video game, write and illustrate a story, or compose music in an afternoon. That's not stealing creativity - that's removing the technical barriers that previously crushed their imagination under the weight of execution difficulty. Your "critical thinking" argument is backwards too. These kids aren't passively consuming - they're learning to prompt, iterate, and refine ideas with an AI partner. That's a higher-order skill than memorizing multiplication tables. They're developing meta-cognitive abilities about how to think WITH machines, which is exactly what they'll need in the future. The real creativity killer? Forcing kids to spend hours on mechanical tasks that AI can handle in seconds, leaving no time for the actual creative exploration. We're finally freeing human imagination from the drudgery of implementation - and you want to chain it back down?