I work with AI every day. Then I go home and try to help my 14-year-old plan a future I can't picture.

The author is helping her 14-year-old stepdaughter plan for her future.

Courtesy of the author I want my stepdaughter to explore subjects and careers that genuinely interest her.

My work makes me acutely aware of how quickly AI is changing jobs and education.

I'm trying not to evaluate every interest she has based on whether AI could replace it.

My stepdaughter is 14, which means we are entering the phase of parenting where everyone suddenly expects her to have opinions about her future.

What classes does she want to take? What is she good at? Does she want to go to college? What kind of job might she want someday? These are normal questions.

We ask them because that is what you do with teenagers — you start helping them picture adulthood .

The problem is that I am having an increasingly hard time picturing it for her.

I research AI for work Much of my professional life is spent researching and writing about AI , which has gone from an unsettling side conversation about the death of blogging and copywriting careers to something that touches nearly every aspect of our lives.

Then I go home and help raise a kid who will enter college and the workforce after all of these institutions have had several more years to rearrange themselves around AI.

I am, in other words, probably more plugged into this stuff than is good for me.

The author uses AI on a daily basis at work.

Courtesy of the author I use AI every day at work.

It's mandatory.