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# Nour Khrais argues blocking AI from kids teaches them nothing
- URL: https://www.isakaba.com/nour-khrais-argues-blocking-ai-from-kids-teaches-them-nothing/
- Published: 2026-08-27T14:29:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-27T14:30:37.000Z
- Description: "A child using AI for homework is not automatically learning to think..."
- Author: Isa Muhammad
- Tags: News, Maysalward

[Maysalward](https://www.isakaba.com/maysalward/) founder and CEO Nour Khrais has weighed in on the debate around children and AI use, arguing that blocking access for older kids fails the same way blocking video games did over a decade ago.

Khrais [took to LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nourkhrais%5Fblock-ai-for-your-children-of-course-not-share-7498622401706889216-albW/?utm%5Fsource=share&utm%5Fmedium=member%5Fandroid&rcm=ACoAAC6QoXoBEUxUgZ8QqAqbt3Sb8KhoIXzq%5F8c) to share his view as someone who builds mobile games for a living. He said restriction is the right call for children under seven or eight, calling age gates, bedtimes, and no devices at the table simple rules that work. 

His argument begins after that point, with the ten-year-old who already has access to AI at school or at a relative's house.

**Conversation over restriction**

Khrais said the advice circulating in parent groups today mirrors what was said about gaming years ago which is to block it, delete it, take the device away by a set time. He argued that blocking alone doesn't teach anything, it just pushes the activity somewhere adults can't see.

"A child using AI for homework is not automatically learning to think," said Khrais. "The answer arrives, it sounds confident, nobody asks where it came from. That is the part that should worry us."

"So sit with them. Ask what the tool produced. Ask what it got wrong. Ask how they would check it themselves."

Khrais also pointed to how AI tools now hold context, remembering prior conversations and shaping answers around a user's history, which he said is where the real influence sits, not in a single answer but in how each reply gets tailored. 

"What matters now is context. These tools remember. They hold what you told them, what you asked last week, how you like to be answered, and they shape the reply around it. The child is not querying a database. They are inside something that adjusts to them," Khrais continued. 

He compared this to lessons he's drawn from games, asking why an offer appears in a shop or why a level suddenly gets easier, arguing kids learn the mechanics on their own but only learn the deeper lesson when an adult is present to talk about it.

"It is the same conversation I have always recommended around games," Khrais added. "Why did that offer appear in the shop? Why does the game want you back at 7 pm? Why did this level suddenly get easier? Games taught me this before AI did."

He concluded by saying restriction sets a boundary, but conversation is what builds judgment