No question is very small when a high school student in Kansas is using Kayla Chase artificial intelligence,
15-year-old, back-to-school shopping, makeup colors, low-calorie options in Smuthi King, Plus Sweet 16 and her younger sister asks for the chatgipt for consideration for the birthday party.
Sophomore Honors student makes a point not to do his homework to chatbots and try to limit his conversation for worldly questions. But in an interview with Associated Press and a new study, teenagers say that they are rapidly interacting with AI as it was a partner, capable of providing advice and friendship.
“Everyone now uses AI for everything. It is actually handling,” Chase said, who wonders how AI tools will affect its generation. “I think children use AI to get out of thinking.”
For the past few years, concern about school cheating has dominated the conversation around children and AI. But Artificial Intelligence is playing a very big role in many of his life. AI, Kishore says, has become a known source for personal advice, emotional support, everyday decision making and problems.
“AI is always available. It never gets bored with you.”
More than 70% of teenagers have used AI comrades and half have used them regularly, according to daily use or reporting several times a week with 34% A new study Common sense media, a group that studies and advocates for using screen and digital media.
The study defines AI peers as platforms designed as “digital friends”, which is like a character. AI or replication, which can be adapted with specific symptoms or personalities and can offer emotional support, association and interaction that may feel human-like. Researchers say that popular sites such as chat and cloud, which mainly answer questions, are being used in the same way.
In an interview with “CBS Evening News” on Wednesday, Common Sense founder and CEO Jim Stere said what he was killed about the study that AI companions “are in teenagers’ life everywhere.”
Common Sense’s study also found that 11% of teenagers use AI companions to build their courage and stand for themselves, which Stear said that could be a good thing. However, he warned that problems arise when technology replaces human relations.
“Little children actually trust these AI colleagues that they should be like friends or parents or doctors,” Stare said. “They are talking about serious relationships, and they are robots. They are not humans.”
As the technology becomes more sophisticated, adolescents and experts are concerned about AI’s ability to redefine human relationships and increase loneliness and young mental health crises.
In Arkansas, 18 -year -old Ganesh Nair says, “AI is always available. It never gets bored with you. It never takes a decision.” “When you are talking to AI, you are always right. You are always interesting. You are always emotionally justified.”
All this appealed, but in the college of this decline as Nair, he wants to retreat from using AI. Nair was split after a high school friend, who trusted the “AI Saathi” to a heart -to -heart conversation with his girlfriend, later the chatbot wrote a breakup text ending his two -year relationship.
“It felt a little diastopian, that a computer created an end to a real relationship,” Nair said. “It is almost as we are allowing computers to change our relationship with people.”
How many teenagers are using AI? New study stun researchers
In the Common Sense Media Survey, 31% of adolescents stated that their conversation with AI colleagues was “satisfactory or more satisfactory” than talking to real friends. Even though half a teenager said that he mistrusts AI’s advice, 33% discussed serious or important issues with AI rather than real people.
Those conclusions are worrying, Michael Rob, the lead author of the study and the lead researcher in general knowledge, and a warning should be sent to parents, teachers and policy makers. Now-booming and large-scale irregular AI industry is integrated with adolescence as there are smartphones and social media.
“It’s an eye opening,” said Rob. “When we set to do this survey, we had no understanding of how many children are actually using AI colleagues.” The study had more than 1,000 teenagers nationwide in April and May.
Adolescent recognition is an important time for the development of social skills, and freedom, Rob said, and AI comrades should be complemented-should not replace the interaction of the world world.
“If teenagers are developing social skills on AI platforms, where they are constantly being valid, not being challenged, not learning to read social signals or not to understand anyone else’s attitude, then they are not going to be sufficiently prepared in the real world,” they said.
Asked whether the issue of playing is with AI technology or children live in the modern world today, Stere said that they believe it is both.
“It is a challenge how children live today because they spend so many hours in front of a screen, and when you take a robot option for a machine or human interaction, you are fundamentally changing the nature of that relationship,” Stere told CBS News.
Non -profit organization analyzed many popular AI colleagues “Risk assessment“Finding restrictions of ineffective age and that platforms can produce sexual content, give dangerous advice and offer harmful materials. While the CEO of Tycomon Sense said that he supports AI’s development and innovation, the group does not advise that the group does not advise.
“On young people, and generally in terms of its impact on families, [the study] There is an extraordinary discovery and one that I think that makes us very concerned about children under 18 years of age, this type is in contact with peers, “Stere said.
Alike is related to a trend for adolescents and adults
Researchers and teachers are concerned about cognitive costs for young people who rely too much on AI, especially in their creativity, important thinking and social skills. Possible dangers of children having a relationship with chatbots drew national attention last year when a 14 -year -old Florida boy died of suicide after developing emotional attachment to a character. Ae chatboat.
“Parents have no idea really,” said Eva Telzer, a psychology and neurological professor at the University of Northern Carolina in Chapel Hill. “We are all killed by how quickly it has blown.” Telzer is leading youth and several studies on AI, which is a new research field with limited data.
Telzer’s research has found that children under 8 years of age are using generous AI and also found that teenagers are using AI for detecting their sexuality and association. In focus groups, Telzer found that one of the top apps teens is spicichat AI, which is a free role for adults.
Many teenagers also say that they use a chatbot to write email or message to attack the right tone in sensitive conditions.
“One of the concerns is that they no longer trust themselves to take decisions,” the tailor said. “They need a response from AI before feeling that they can see the box whether an idea is right or not.”
Kishore Bruce Perry of 17 -year -old Arkanses says he belongs to him and depends on the AI tools that he crafts out the outline and proofied essays for his English class.
“If you ask me to plan an essay, I would think of going to chat before getting out of the pencil,” Perry said. He uses AI Daily and has asked Chatbots to advise in social situations, so that he can help decide what to wear and write emails to teachers, AI has rapidly articulated his thoughts.
Perry says that he feels lucky that AI companions were not around when he was younger.
“I worry that children may lose it,” Perry said. “I could see a baby who grows with AI, not looking at the reason for going to the park or tries to make a friend.”
Other teenagers agree, issues with AI and its impacts on children’s mental health are different from social media.
“Social media complements the need to go to meet new people, to meet the need to see people,” Nair said. “I think AI fulfills another requirement that runs very deeply – we need to feel our needs and feelings of attachment. It feeds it.”
“This is a new addiction,” Nair said. “This is how I see it.”
