NPR Asked 7 Teens How They Feel About AI, and Things Got Real
While adults panic about robots stealing jobs or writing term papers, someone actually thought to ask high schoolers how they feel about growing up alongside artificial intelligence.
NPR rounded up seven teenagers from across the country to get a pulse on what it’s like studying and living in the age of AI.
Instead of treating it like sci-fi doom or an instant cheat code for homework, the kids are caught right in the middle, navigating a world where classroom rules change faster than their algorithms can keep up.
Turns out the generation that was supposed to fully embrace machine learning is mostly trying to figure out where human effort ends and automation begins.
The adults are arguing over policy while high schoolers are left doing the actual beta testing in real time.
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