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The use of Artificial Intelligence in primary education holds tremendous potential to enhance the learning journey of children through tailored, adaptive and culturally inclusive teaching. AI can definitely help to drive engagement, motivation and creativity from the student perspective, particularly when complemented with emotionally and culturally responsive teaching methods. Yet, factors like digital inequality, digital illiteracy, and privacy issues and ethical considerations of data use impact students' access and attitudes. Moreover, it's a must prerequisite for comprehensive student development that all AI applications also enable social-emotional learning and moral development. To achieve effective integration, it is essential to address gaps in infrastructure and care and include educational policy, as well as champion inclusive, ethical, and developmentally appropriate tools, such as AI, that support primary learners in a variety of settings.