A Gurugram-based man shared a post about his seven-year-old daughter turning to ChatGPT whenever she had a question she could not answer, sparking a conversation about what AI might be taking away from the way we learn.Karan Dhundia, a regional manager working in Gurugram, shared his thoughts in a LinkedIn post about how his daughter instinctively reached for ChatGPT whenever her parents did not have an answer.Karan wrote that his daughter believed ChatGPT “knew everything.” If her parents could not answer a question, she did not suggest finding out together but simply told them to ask ChatGPT.While he found the habit amusing, he admitted that his daughter was not entirely wrong.
AI can probably provide far more facts than most people can recall.But, he argued, there was something she actually needed that the technology could not offer; the experience of watching her parents pause, guess, admit they did not know and then work out the answer with her.He said that same pattern was increasingly visible in workplaces. When employees faced a question they could not answer, the quickest response was often to turn to an AI tool rather than ask a colleague.While the tool could provide an answer faster, Karan said the gap before finding that answer once created opportunities for conversations, mentorship and learning.“AI can give my daughter an answer.
It cannot give her the memory of watching two adults not know something and figure it out anyway,” he wrote.For Karan, that was the human element he did not want to automate, either at home or at work. He argued that good leaders were not necessarily those who always had the quickest answers, but those willing to openly sit with uncertainty and figure things out alongside their teams.Take a look at the post here:His post prompted a wider discussion among LinkedIn users about what AI might be changing beyond productivity.One user argued that while AI could accelerate the process of finding answers, wisdom was still developed by learning how to ask better questions.Another said that the willingness to remain uncomfortable with “I don’t know, let’s figure it out” was becoming an increasingly difficult skill to maintain in the age of AI.A third took a slightly different view, suggesting that AI could eventually be taught to emulate this aspect of human behaviour by acknowledging when it did not know something and directing people towards other ways of finding the answer, whether through a book, a person or a place.Karan Dhundia’s post ultimately raised a question that extended well beyond his daughter: when an answer is always just a prompt away, are we still giving people enough opportunities to learn how to find it themselves?- EndsPublished By: Yashna TalwarPublished On: Sep 5, 2026 16:07 IST
