The whole progress in 7 month went roughly like that. My main tasks were helping him choose tooling (notion was a good fit for semi structure document oriented project, among others), remind him to find something simpler to try, and helping him being working regularly.
He wandered like that:

• what kind how genAI tools exists? (As of 2024 Chatbots, image, music, slides)
• OK, are chatbots biased? Start with 4 or 5 available online. Discover how to use it, prompt. Try simple things, not much success to expose biases.
• read research on the subject (summary of papers, popularization post,

blog, etc - even ask genAI bots and notice they lie about reference, or what the seem authorized to tell)

• new test with refined prompt: some gender biases exposed. As soon as things need to be bit astute, protection layer unravel
• wonder if there is other biases than gender? Be horrified by the

privilege, rich, western culture centered biase
(All along, he was dutifully copying all his test prompt with the answers in notion, also noticing that sometimes, some not trap that used to work didn't anymore)

• switch to image generation and notice that OMG, image generation is a whole other of

horror show than text: not only the basic anti stereotype protections that text bots had seem missing, but you can even choose your preferred stereotypic flavor. You get things like that for "draw me a 8y girl/boy in her/his bed room"

• from here, wondering how genAI works and learning about self learning, training/labeling/rewarding, master prompt, defense side process, prompting.
• wondering what is actionable, and master prompt seems very much so if you run your own genAI bot

• learning about olama and deepseek,

• and with tries and errors, building his own (very limited, given his laptop 8y old middle-entry video card) white macho bot with the good old time where white men where respected and women knew what jobs where ok

• then, wondering what kind of artifacts he could do about that (producing an artifact other than slides is part of the school curriculum, some children choosing art like a painting, etc)

• discovering that autonomy is also about knowing to ask for help, and emailing his referent teacher

• with teacher advice, choosing to do a video explaining how genAI are stochastic parrots without mental model, nourished with the worst of internet including a kind of canibalism, built with the bias of programers and the will of corporations, and the danger of confort versus critical thinking

• finally, create the slide deck presenting the meta learning, I'd roughly what I told above (project management, etc). That part took a lot of time, since I used it to help him create a good slide deck (not doing it for him, but saying a lot "too much text" "the transition 8s not flowing"...)

And yep, that was a really cool trip, for him and for me.
He got the highest mark, and everyone who had access to his slude and video learned something (teachers, his grand parents, his brothers, and even my coworkers).
(Yes, i'm proud and bragging, and I stop now)