I recently tried a small experiment in my graduate seminar on AI ethics. I asked the room, mostly bright students in their 20s and 30s, a simple question: "When you close your eyes and imagine a user for the AI system you are designing, whose face do you see?"

The answers were telling. Most admitted they pictured someone like themselves: young, quick with a smartphone, constantly engaged with digital interfaces. Almost no one pictured their own grandparents. That moment of silence in the classroom stayed with me. It revealed a blind spot in how we talk about technology. We spend so much energy debating data privacy, algorithmic bias, or the existential risks of some future superintelligence. These are real issues.

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