Tag: Language Acquisition

2 articles

Ethics & Society

Whose Language Does the AI Tutor Speak?

Bilingual children develop metalinguistic superpowers by navigating two languages. AI systems can "speak" hundreds — and understand none the way humans do. The question isn't just neuroscience. It's about whose languages we're choosing to build into our systems, and what we're telling children when we don't.

Jules Okafor·March 14, 2026

Cognition & AI

Your Brain Runs on Stories. AI Runs on Text.

Stories aren't just how humans communicate — they're how we think. Language models can predict your brain's response to a sentence. They still can't tell a story. Here's why the gap is wider than it looks.

Maren Solis·March 11, 2026