Karan Dhundia, a LinkedIn user and father, said he believes his daughter needs to change her approach to finding answers and solving problems.
“My seven-year-old thinks ChatGPT knows everything. If her parents don't have an answer, her instinct isn't ‘let's find out together’. It's ‘just ask ChatGPT’,” he wrote.
Dhundia said his daughter's approach initially made him laugh but also prompted him to reflect on how powerful AI tools have become in finding solutions to a wide range of problems.
However, he said there was something important missing.
“It's just missing the thing she actually needs, which is us struggling to find the answer with her,” he said.
Dhundia said he wants his daughter to learn the value of working through uncertainty with her parents instead of immediately turning to an AI tool.
“The pausing. The guessing. The ‘let's look it up together.’ That's a skill. I see the same pattern showing up at work,” he said.
“Someone hits a question they can't answer, and the fastest move now is to ask a tool, not a colleague. The tool answers faster. But something else used to happen in that gap. A conversation. A mentor moment. A person learning to think,” he added.
Highlighting the human connection that he believes cannot be replaced by AI, Dhundia said: “AI can give my daughter an answer. It cannot give her the memory of watching two adults not know something and figure it out anyway.”
“That's the human part I don't want to automate, at home or at work,” he said.
His post soon sparked a debate online, with several users saying they could relate to his observation.
One user wrote: “This is completely relatable. If there is something AI can't replace, then it has to be human connections. Asking questions and taking advice not only keeps conversations alive but also gives a perspective that AI tends to miss, including the background of the problem, culture, and so on.”
Another user said: “In this present day and age, the skill of thinking through uncertainty is more important than instant recall. Proving that the advantage lies in cultivating resilience instead of achieving faster answers.”