Guest opinion: Writer, beware of chatbots' impact on our kids

A person works on computer with icons of Chatbot computer program designed for conversation with human users over the internet. So far, in our discussions of artificial intelligence chatbots for student writing and the teaching of writing, there has been a key missing piece. It has to do with the role of optimism in teenagers' lives. Its absence points to our emotional impoverishment as parents and adults and to some reasons why our youth today are so depressed. Marc Vincenti taught English at Gunn High School for 15 years and led the school reform coalition Save the 2,008.