AI may be doing to human childhood what geothermal vents did to the megapode egg, front-loading competence while leaving the slower, harder-won thing, formation, undelivered.
"Competence is what a person can do; formation is who they become in the years it takes to earn the doing."
AI can compress the transfer of skill, but not the slow, unhurried process — trial, failure, shared silence — by which a person becomes someone rather than merely capable of something.