There is no doubt that Kayla Chig, a high school student in Kansas, is used artificial intelligence.
The 15 -year -old asks Chatgpt about the guidance about the retreating shopping to school, Makeup colorsLow calorie options at Smoothie King, as well as her Sweet 16 ideas and her younger sister’s birthday party.
Sophomore Honors, the point of lack of Chatbots, explains its duty and tries to reduce her interactions on worldly questions. But in interviews with Associated Press and a new study, teenagers say they are increasingly interacting with artificial intelligence as if he were a companion, able to provide advice and friendship.
“Everyone uses artificial intelligence for everything now. He really takes care of,” said Chig, who wonders how artificial intelligence tools will affect her generation. “I think children use artificial intelligence to get out of thinking.”
Over the past two years, concerns about school cheating have dominated children and Amnesty International. But artificial intelligence plays a much greater role in many of their lives. Adolescents say artificial intelligence has become a source in favor of personal advice, emotional support, daily decision -making and problem solving.
More than 70 % of adolescents used artificial intelligence comrades and half of them use them regularly, according to New study From Media Sense Sense, a group that is taught and reasoned to use screens and digital media.
The study defines artificial intelligence comrades as platforms designed to serve as “digital friends”, such as the letter. AII or Replika, which can be allocated with specific features or personalities and can provide emotional support, companionship and conversations that can feel like a person. Researchers say common sites such as ChatGPT and Claude, which mainly answer questions, are used in the same way.
Since technology becomes more advanced, adolescents and experts are concerned about the capabilities of Amnesty International to redefine human relations and the exacerbation of crises from unity and mental health of young people.
“Amnesty International is always available. You never get bored with you. It is never a ruling,” says Gunsh Nair, 18, says April. “When you talk to artificial intelligence, you are always right. You are always interesting. You always justify emotionally.”
All that is used to be attractive, but with Nair head to college this fall, he wants to back down from the use of artificial intelligence. Nair suffered a dismay after a high school friend who relied on “Amnesty International Rafik” for talks from heart to heart with his girlfriend at a later time. Chatbot was writing the text of the disintegration that ends his relationship for two years.
Nair said: “He felt a little disruption, as the computer has caused the end of a real relationship,” Nair said. “It seems as if we allow computers to replace our relationships with people.”
In a healthy media poll, 31 % of adolescents said that their talks with artificial intelligence comrades were “or more satisfactory” from talking to real friends. Although half of the teenagers said they did not trust the advice of artificial intelligence, 33 % discussed serious or important issues with artificial intelligence instead of real people.
Michael Rob, the main author of the study and the main researcher for the study, says he must send a warning to parents, teachers and policy makers. Now the boom and Making artificial intelligence largely unorganized I became integrated with adolescence Like smart phones and social media.
Rob said: “It is the opening of the eye.” “When we started conducting this survey, we had no understanding of the number of children who actually used artificial intelligence comrades.” The study surveyed more than 1,000 teenagers in the country in April and May.
Rob said that adolescence is a decisive time to develop identity, social skills and independence, and artificial intelligence comrades must complete-not to replace-reactions in the real world.
He said: “If adolescents are developing social skills on the platforms of artificial intelligence where health is constantly verified, and not challenging, and not learning to read social sermon or understand the perspective of another person, they will not be sufficiently prepared in the real world.”
Non -profit organizations analyzed many artificial intelligence comrades in A. risk assessment“Finding restrictions on my age is ineffective and that platforms can produce sexual materials, provide serious advice and provide harmful content. The group recommends that minors do not use artificial intelligence comrades.
Researchers and teachers worry about the cognitive costs of young people who rely heavily on artificial intelligence, especially in their creativity, critical thinking and social skills. The potential risks of children who pose relationships with Chatbots have gained national attention last year when a 14 -year -old boy died due to suicide after developing an emotional connection To Chatbot Chatbot Chatbot.
“Parents have no idea that this happens,” said Eva Telezer, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at North Carolina University in Chapel Hill. “We are all amazed at how quickly this exploded.” Telezer leads multiple studies on youth and AI, a new research field with limited data.
Telzer’s research has found that children who are not exceeding 8 years of age use childbirth intelligence and also found that adolescents use artificial intelligence to explore their sexual lives and companionship. In concentration groups, Telzer found that one of the best repeated teenage applications is SpkyChat AI, which is a free application playing for adults.
Many teenagers also say they use Chatbots to write email messages or messages to strike the right tone in sensitive situations.
“One of the concerns that it is offered is no longer confidence in themselves to make a decision,” said Telzers. “They need notes from artificial intelligence before feeling that they can check the box that the idea is fine or not.”
Bruce Perry in Arkansas, 17, says he relates to this and depends on artificial intelligence tools to outlines and scrutiny articles in his chapter in English.
Perry said: “If you tell me that I plan for an article, I will think about going to chat before leaving a pencil,” Perry said. AI uses daily and asked Chatbots to advise in social situations, to help him determine what he wears and write emails for teachers, saying that artificial intelligence expresses his ideas faster.
Perry says he feels lucky because artificial intelligence comrades were not present when he was younger.
“I am worried that children will be lost in this,” Perry said. “I can see a child growing up with Amnesty International who does not see a reason to go to the park or try to form a friend.”
Other adolescents agree, saying that the issues related to AI and their impact on the mental health of children are different from those on social media.
Nair said: “Social media has completed the need in which people should be seen, to be known, to meet new people.” “I think Amnesty International completes another need that works more deeply – our need to attach and our need to feel emotions. It feeds on it.”
“It is the new addiction,” Nair added. “This is what I see.”
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