Driving home from school, my 5-year-old asked, “Mommy, can we ask ChatGPT when dinosaurs went extinct?”

I turned on voice mode. The car lit up like a fifth passenger had joined us, explaining the Cretaceous Period in cheerful detail.

A few days later, I asked my six-year-old daughter, “What does ChatGPT do?”

She grinned. “Mommy, it knows everything.”

She said it with awe. I heard it with alarm.

The generation raised on AI won’t just think differently; they’ll lead differently. As executives rush to integrate generative tools across workplaces, we should ask: what happens when a workforce grows up never learning to struggle through a problem? The habits our children form with AI will shape the cognitive DNA of tomorrow’s leaders.

I felt a pang of déjà vu. I’m a geriatric millennial, p

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