AI may also become a way of being a mirror to learning, to our own reflexivity ?

For example, see this "toy" for kids - not sure it is to be defined as AI, yet ... has a feeling of it.

After all , millions of kids, now become adults like myself, grew up with TV when ending up isolated most of the time,

because adults are busy earning money to afford survival and rent,
and because organizing meetings with other kids by making agreements with other parents was more of an event

then something usual, at least from my point of experience.    More and more of global population, and of children,

are trapped in cities.    

In my own case, luckily I had access to documentaries, in several languages, with a broad choice of channels for the day.

Today, there is , luckily, the internet.

At best, some of these "toys" can be pre-programmed to teach children to get out of the rat race,

and develop strategies to get out of an exponential debt/slavery system, 

hopefully enabling them to develop a (co)creative curious approach to learning ( and not merely a reproductive approach )

Even for me today, it is not easy to find people who share interests who have availability to learn together, except on the internet,

in a asynchronous way.

I live in this city, yet it is irrelevant.  I sometimes go outside to see people, yet avoid certain times of the day,

feeling what people feel. There is segregation.   Some parts of the population take public transport.  Others go by car.

I am imprisoned despite being "free". Imprisoned because social income requires me to be integrating, and staying within this limited territory.

I accepted, after spending several years of "freedom", but trapped in constant movement and change, hitch hiking.

I am still very empowered, so lets not be too concerned.   Yet just to say, I am aware of a lot of people going through such situations.

I do have my approaches, and keep faith.

So in regards to this thread, perhaps we need not completely disregard certain technologies,

and the potential for intelligence it can enable ( despite surveillance )

as they can be a source of remaining hope , to remain "human" ,

for those who may end up being isolated in our so called developed countries.

Imho, Many children being part of such crowds of isolated individuals.