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The Friction Our Children Need in the Age of AI

THE WASHINGTON STAND—At the center of the Christian faith is not an abstraction but a Person. John tells us that “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14, ESV). Christianity therefore takes embodiment seriously: human beings are formed through relationships, presence, imitation, discipline, and love. That truth should make Christian parents think carefully about an educational culture that routinely places screens, software, and now chatbots between children and the human work of learning.

I recently participated in an Aug. 19 Faith Leaders for Secure AI briefing hosted by the Alliance for Secure AI, where I serve on the board. One presentation came from Michael Marinaccio, executive director of the Center for Responsible Technology, a father of five children and longtime technologist who has spent years warning about the effects of excessive classroom technology.

Marinaccio offered five words that stayed with me: “In education, friction is key.”

Much of modern technology is designed around a simple promise: remove the friction. Good technology removes waiting, searching, effort, and inconvenience. That may be useful when we are ordering an airline ticket. It is a very different proposition when we are forming a child.

A student struggles through a difficult paragraph instead of asking a chatbot to summarize it. He tries the math problem again. He searches his memory before reaching for a machine. He writes a paragraph, realizes it is weak, and rewrites it. He asks a teacher a question and discovers that the answer may require thought, patience, and conversation.

Those moments may be inefficient. They are also a critical aspect of education.

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The research gives Marinaccio’s warning considerable weight. A 2025 field experiment published by the Proceedings of the........

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