Colman Noctor: Growing role of AI chips away at trust and fuels anxiety in children

For parents, the question should no longer be whether our children will engage with AI, but who they will become because of it

AI platforms don’t understand that children grow by being stretched through negotiation, boredom, disagreement, and an awareness of other people’s needs. File picture: iStock

WHEN historians look back at 2025, I suspect they will describe it not merely as a year of technological acceleration but as a psychological turning point. 

As a psychotherapist and a parent, I have experienced the past year less through headlines and more through the quiet confessions in my therapy room and around my kitchen table.