Fernando de Oliveira
10% of Brazil's Connected Kids Already Confide in an AI
Bill Gates describes friendship with chatbots as a greenhouse where a child never really grows, and files it under future risk. Cetic.br has already measured the Brazilian present: 12% of 15-to-17-year-olds talk to an AI about personal problems. And the only rule in the world aimed at exactly that case is Chinese, and it isn't the ban Gates described.
Why Programmers Talk to Rubber Ducks and What It Teaches Us About Learning with AI
In a world flooded with instant answers, passive consumption creates a false sense of mastery. Cognitive science explains why real learning only starts when we try to explain what we know before searching.
Seven in Ten Brazilian Students Already Use AI in School. Almost No One Explained How.
In September 2025 Estonia put a Socratic version of ChatGPT in the hands of 20,000 high schoolers. In Brazil, seven in ten internet-using high school students already use generative AI for schoolwork. Only 32% got any guidance on how.