How Many More Warnings Do We Need?

This just happened:

Meta — the tech giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — is about to start grading its employees based on how well they use AI at work.

Yes, you read that right.

Starting this month, every Meta employee will be evaluated not just on their traditional performance metrics, but on how effectively they leverage AI to get their job done faster, smarter, and better.

And while that might seem like a big-tech problem, it’s actually a parenting one.

Because if one of the world’s most powerful companies is building its future around AI fluency — rewarding employees who use it well and penalizing those who don’t — then the message is crystal clear:

AI isn’t extra anymore. It’s expected.

And that means every child growing up today — including yours — will be judged tomorrow on how well they can work with AI.

This Is the New Literacy

Let’s be blunt:

The future workforce isn’t just about showing up, trying hard, and getting good grades.

It’s about knowing how to prompt an AI tool the way today’s top employees already do. It’s about turning an idea into an automated plan.

It’s about saving time, spotting flaws, asking the right questions, and iterating on the fly.

The scary part?

Most schools aren’t teaching this.

And most parents have no idea it’s this urgent.

But here’s what Meta’s decision tells us:

This isn’t coming “someday.”

It’s happening right now.

And the gap between AI-aware kids and everyone else is about to explode.

What Kids Need to Learn (Before It’s Too Late)

Using AI isn’t just about typing into ChatGPT and getting answers.

It’s about knowing how to ask better questions. How to refine. How to test and adapt. How to lead the AI, not just follow its output blindly.

It’s about problem-solving, creativity, clarity, and yes — judgment.

And if a 10-year-old learns that now?

They’re 10 years ahead of the competition.

Because here’s the quiet truth behind Meta’s new policy: the winners of the next decade won’t be the people who work harder — they’ll be the ones who know how to work with machines.

Your child’s ability to learn this early, in a supportive home, might be the single biggest advantage they ever get.

But Isn’t This Too Much Pressure?

No. It’s an opportunity.

Because once you reframe AI from a threat into a tool — a partner — it becomes something kids actually love to learn.

They get to explore, invent, play, and create. They get feedback in seconds. They get to experiment without judgment.

And with your guidance, they learn to use it ethically, wisely, and in service of their real-world goals — not just faster homework or sillier memes.

The Meta Wake-Up Call

When Meta starts grading employees on AI skills, what they’re really saying is this:

If you can’t keep up, you don’t belong in the room.

We don’t want that for your child.

We want them to own the room.

To walk into school, into work, into life with the confidence that comes from knowing how to think, create, and lead in an AI world.

But that doesn’t start in college.

It starts now.

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