”Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up” by Clay Shirky, 30, Jan. 2026. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/ai-social-skills-relationships.html
The article discusses how AI is reducing students’ cognitive offloading and changing how they think and learn. We are also seeing how it is affecting emotional and cognitive ability.
The claim that is being made throughout, the article is that although we are using AI, it’s becoming a trustworthy source for emotional support, or when students lack social skills and also have social anxiety. And because of that it is causing threats on human relationships, and ability to connect. Which affects the emotional offloading that young adolescents and others need to critical think when they’re using AI as emotional support.
Overall , based of the article, I feel that we need to focus on what is happening with the generational gap and why individuals that are young adolescent field. They are more connected to understand and relate to AI for emotional support, then others around them..
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