AI just want to pinch those little cheeks!

Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and now steering Meta’s superintelligence lab, has put fatherhood on pause. Not because he is too busy, but because he is waiting for brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink to be ready for the nursery. In his mind,

the first seven years are the golden runway for a human brain, and he wants his future children to take off with afterburners.

It is a bold vision, and a strangely tender one. Picture a baby monitor that not only shows a sleeping infant but also streams the dreams they are having. Imagine a toddler at the breakfast table, cheerfully “downloading” a new language between bites of oatmeal. Think of show-and-tell at preschool, where the “show” is a fully rendered 3D world a child built in their mind and the “tell” happens without a single spoken word.

Wang’s dream is not of children as little cyborg executives, but as explorers. The technology is the canoe, not the river. Childhood remains the wild current of curiosity, and the job is to help them navigate it with tools fit for their time. The scraped knees will still be there, so will the giggles and the playground politics, but the imagination will have a bigger canvas.

There is also a quiet wisdom in his decision. He knows AI will not wait for anyone, and he would rather see his children grow up speaking the language of machines fluently than spend their lives playing catch-up. It is a parenting philosophy that trusts the future enough to hand it over to the next generation without apology.

For now, Wang is waiting. But the picture is easy to see: a home where bedtime stories are beamed straight into dreams, where curiosity blooms in new dimensions, and where the most common phrase you hear from a child is not “I can’t” but “Watch this.”