BBC explores growing up in the age of AI: Sweden teaches kids to collaborate with machines
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-16
BBC World Service's Tech Life aired a 26-minute episode, "Growing up in the age of AI," on how parents and children should navigate rapidly developing AI, featuring an expert with a new book on schooling and careers in the AI era. It highlights how Sweden's classrooms teach curiosity, ethics, and code — kids learning to collaborate with machines rather than compete. The episode also covers health tech mining menstrual blood for disease data and satellite imaging aiding orangutan conservation in Indonesia.
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