Most parents know their children are using AI for homework. Far fewer know that 70% of teens have used an AI companion app, and about half are regular users, developing an ongoing “relationship” with an avatar that talks back. In this episode, Josh and Jen sit down with Jeremiah May, a homeschool dad of three, a former educator, and the producer behind this show, to unpack what AI actually is, how it’s showing up in children’ s lives, and what parents can do about it.

Jeremiah walks through the practical basics first: what makes generative AI different from a search engine, why he tells his own children (and his ministry team) to treat anything typed into an AI tool like a postcard that anyone could read, and a personal story about an AI editing tool that accidentally lifted 15 to 20 percent of a published book, word for word, from a book. From there the conversation moves into the harder questions: when AI homework help becomes cheating, why AI companion apps raise real concerns about children substituting a lifeless interaction for real relationship, and where the line sits between using AI as a tool and leaning on it as a crutch.

Underneath it all is a simple conviction: a child’s ability to think well, whether about AI or anything else, is built on the same foundation it has always taken, logic, biblical literacy, and a home where truth gets tested against Scripture. Jeremiah offers parents a clear, workable way to think about AI boundaries that doesn’t require becoming an expert overnight.

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