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The advent of the iPhone spawned generation I, and it appears that AI is birthing the next generation - Generation AI — currently in diapers. This generation will be surrounded, immersed and plugged into all kinds of interfaces that attempt to anticipate their every need, want, desire and wish. The pervasiveness of AI, like a neurotically anxious overbearing parent, risks short-circuiting the messy and necessary struggles inherent in life, including tolerating the void of the unknown, whereas for children, the unknown being the evolving sense of self.