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Kinder & KI: 5 Risiken, die Eltern kennen sollten

23 October 2026, with Joël Kaczmarek and Daniel Wolff

Summary

This episode is in German.

Joel Kaczmarek talks with Daniel Wolff, a German digital-literacy trainer, former teacher and author of ‚Allein mit dem Handy‘, about how AI is reshaping childhood. Wolff argues the most-used children's AI is not ChatGPT but Meta AI inside WhatsApp, which completes homework from a photo and is tuned for engagement. He covers companion apps recently banned in China, the risk that children skip skills entirely rather than de-skill them, and the water and energy cost of AI data centres. The conversation includes distressing material, among it teenage suicide cases.

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  • 80%
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  • 40%
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  • 30%
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What you’ll learn

  • warum die meistgenutzte KI deiner Kinder nicht ChatGPT heißt, sondern in WhatsApp steckt
  • was Companion-Apps sind, wie Kinder darauf stoßen und wie du sie auf dem Handy findest
  • warum Kindern nicht De-Skilling droht, sondern Skipping – und was der Unterschied ausmacht
  • was der KI-Ausbau an Strom und Wasser kostet und warum das ausgerechnet die Generation deiner Kinder trifft

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