A recent article in The AI Journal examines the impact of the AI transition on families, noting that the shift has become an emotional event, as seen when graduates at the University of Central Florida booed a speaker who described AI as “the next industrial revolution.” Today’s graduates are entering “a labor market that has rarely looked so forbidding,” with unemployment for young degree-holders already at its highest level since the pandemic, and are described as “scarred by the recent past, menaced by a post‑human future.” This is the first generation to experience two developmental shocks: the disruption of COVID during adolescence and the destabilizing force of AI at the threshold of adulthood. The article references two books: Jodi Kantor’s *How to Start: Discovering Your Life’s Work*, which offers advice from “a world that is rapidly ceasing to exist,” and Noam Scheiber’s *Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College‑Educated Working Class*, which documents downward mobility among college graduates as a defining feature of the early 21st century, with some policymakers warning that unemployment for new graduates could reach unprecedented levels. The article argues that families must become intergenerational CPNs—collaborative, evaluative, adaptive units—to help children navigate this transition.