Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t new, but it’s quietly shaping our kids’ lives.
It might feel like it’s ‘just a bit of fun’, but in conversations with over 1,000 boys in schools, I heard first-hand how AI chatbots are starting to replace other forms of communication.
One boy told me: “It’s just there in my pocket, it remembers everything I tell it, there is nothing that I can’t ask it, and it doesn’t judge me. That’s why I use it.”
This was a common theme: being able to have judgement-free conversations removes the awkwardness from needing to ask a parent or even a friend.
But not all AI is good AI; the reality is that some creators gamify and target youngsters to get them hooked on their bots because it’s good for business. As one Read Entire Article
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