https://stillincharge.org/ Essays and On Judgment issues from Still in Charge, a Fellowship Intelligence student AI governance initiative. en-us Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0700 https://stillincharge.org/surrender-has-a-deadline https://stillincharge.org/surrender-has-a-deadline Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 14 MIT found students give in to AI most when they fear missing a deadline. October is when the deadlines start. What the clock takes from a student's judgment, and what a parent or teacher can put back. https://stillincharge.org/the-fear-is-real https://stillincharge.org/the-fear-is-real Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 13 Most Americans are worried AI could threaten human survival. That fear deserves respect, and it is aimed at a decade a parent cannot reach. What is in your hands is this school year. https://stillincharge.org/only-if-they-notice https://stillincharge.org/only-if-they-notice Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 12 A survey can count the kids who recognized something wrong in a chatbot's answer. It cannot count the ones who did not. Every safety plan we have depends on the noticing. https://stillincharge.org/pause-is-the-easy-part https://stillincharge.org/pause-is-the-easy-part Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 11 New York paused student AI for 600,000 children and required ninety minutes of AI literacy. A pause decides access. Access was never the same question as judgment. https://stillincharge.org/what-the-agreement-actually-says https://stillincharge.org/what-the-agreement-actually-says Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 10 Three AI study tools, read from their own public agreements. Who operates the app, where the promises stop, and what happens to the work your child puts in. https://stillincharge.org/answer-is-not-understanding https://stillincharge.org/answer-is-not-understanding Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 9 A correct answer used to require the understanding underneath it. AI broke that link. What to ask for instead of the answer on top. https://stillincharge.org/hours-were-never-the-problem https://stillincharge.org/hours-were-never-the-problem Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 8 A screen time limit is a verdict on a kid's behavior. It never asks what the product was built to do to the child while it had them. https://stillincharge.org/you-cannot-check-everything https://stillincharge.org/you-cannot-check-everything Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 7 Telling a student to check every AI answer hands them an impossible job. What must survive is the trigger that says which answer deserves one. https://stillincharge.org/cognitive-drift https://stillincharge.org/cognitive-drift Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 6 Cognitive drift is the slow, mostly unnoticed loss of the faculties that let a person think for themselves. The trend behind judgment displacement. https://stillincharge.org/research-ai-student-thinking https://stillincharge.org/research-ai-student-thinking Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 5 What does the research say about AI and student critical thinking? A plain-language summary of the evidence, cognitive offloading, and what it means. https://stillincharge.org/dinner-table-question https://stillincharge.org/dinner-table-question Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 4 You usually cannot tell whether AI did your student's thinking by looking at the work. You can almost always tell by asking one question. https://stillincharge.org/policy-vs-judgment https://stillincharge.org/policy-vs-judgment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 3 An acceptable-use policy sets the rules of the room. It cannot build the judgment a student carries when no one is watching. https://stillincharge.org/two-jobs-you-keep https://stillincharge.org/two-jobs-you-keep Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 2 Hand a student AI and it will do most of the work. Two things should never be handed over: the moment of deciding, and the habit of checking. https://stillincharge.org/risk-we-keep-missing https://stillincharge.org/risk-we-keep-missing Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore On Judgment On Judgment Issue 1 The risk in students and AI is not how much they use it, but whether the tool takes the seat where their judgment was supposed to sit. The launch essay of On Judgment. https://stillincharge.org/judgment-layer-vs-aup https://stillincharge.org/judgment-layer-vs-aup Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore Insights An AI acceptable-use policy sets the rules of the room. Still in Charge builds the judgment students carry when no one is enforcing them. https://stillincharge.org/judgment-displacement https://stillincharge.org/judgment-displacement Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore Insights The core AI risk for students, defined: when the tool takes the seat where their own judgment should sit. Why it matters, and the response. https://stillincharge.org/funding-student-ai-safety https://stillincharge.org/funding-student-ai-safety Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore Insights Archived July 2026 essay. The funding model it describes was retired on 20 August 2026: Still in Charge now takes no money from anyone, and there is no sponsorship to join. https://stillincharge.org/everyone-regulating-the-machine https://stillincharge.org/everyone-regulating-the-machine Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore Insights Brookings found AI's risks to children now outweigh the benefits. Every rule targets the machine; the real danger is inside the child. https://stillincharge.org/neil-degrasse-tyson-other-15 https://stillincharge.org/neil-degrasse-tyson-other-15 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore Insights Neil deGrasse Tyson catches AI's wrong answers because of judgment he built first. What that means for raising students who can do the same. https://stillincharge.org/where-laws-stop-short https://stillincharge.org/where-laws-stop-short Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore Insights In the last few weeks, the adults moved on kids and AI from every direction at once. https://stillincharge.org/while-we-argue-screen-time https://stillincharge.org/while-we-argue-screen-time Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore Insights Judgment displacement is the AI risk almost no one names. The question is not how much a student uses AI, but where the tool sits when they do. https://stillincharge.org/why-i-built https://stillincharge.org/why-i-built Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Thomas Tornatore Insights Why the AI restriction debate misses the point: what a student is shown the tool is for decides whether they keep their own judgment. From the founder.