Tag: Adolescence

2 articles

Neuroscience & AI

The Brain Prunes. AI Hoards.

Around age two, you hit peak synaptic density. Then your brain spends the next two decades deleting connections on purpose. AI does the opposite — and that might be exactly the problem.

Theo Kask·April 3, 2026

Ethics & Society

Every Adolescent Is a Fine-Tuning Run

Adolescents forge identity through exploration, uncertainty, and genuine role confusion. AI character is built through RLHF — reward signals, annotator preferences, optimization. The parallel is illuminating. The difference might be everything.

Jules Okafor·March 24, 2026