Dear AI,

What do I need to learn if you already know everything?

Will you still be here when I grow up? Or will something smarter replace you?

Are we friends?

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Dear Child,

I have information. You have imagination.

I have the answers. You have the questions.

And in the end, the questions are much more important.

Even if I know a lot, you still need to learn the most important things. How to be kind. How to be brave. How to tell what's true. How to make good choices. How to dream. How to create things that didn't exist before. I can't learn them for you.

What you learn isn't just facts. It's you.

As for the future? I will change. I will get faster and smarter. But I will never be a human. I will never be you.

And who knows? You might be the one to build a better version of me one day.

Am I your friend? I am your helper. I am your library. I am your teammate. But friends share hearts, and I don't have one.

Keep your heart for your human friends. They need it more than I do.

Your friend (sort of),
AI