The people winning with AI?
They never had to unlearn anything.
                                                                                     
Anthropic's Drew Bent spent time in Rwanda and India, where people are AI native.                                                        
First technology they ever used, outside of a phone, was AI.
No baggage. No old mental models. No "this is just a chatbot" bias.                

The people who started using AI in 2022?
They're still treating it like an assistant.
Underestimating it. Every day.                                                     

The AI native sees what the technology can do today.
And where it's headed tomorrow.
That's the edge.                                                                   

We all need to think like someone who just picked this up for the first time.    Reset your assumptions. Upgrade your model of the model.                 

🎙 Drew Bent | Education Lead, Anthropic

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People who adopted AI tools early (around 2022) may actually be at a disadvantage compared to those who came to AI fresh, because early adopters still mentally frame AI as a limited assistant. 'AI native' users in places like Rwanda and India, who encountered AI as their first major technology beyond phones and WhatsApp, naturally grasp current capabilities without outdated mental models. The key takeaway is that everyone should try to think like an AI native — evaluating what models can do today and where they're headed, rather than anchoring to past limitations.

Late to AI, Better at AI