The Reasons Teens Say No to AI(wsj.com)
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The Reasons Teens Say No to AI
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-avoidance-teenagers-7d1efa06
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The kids are alright.
As a teen, I do feel like especially within 2025. The world moved way too fast for even me to catch up (well I caught up fine but got burnt out trying to follow geopolitics because I used to like geopolitics before hand)
Maybe Ignorance is bliss.
One of the issues I feel right now with my generation and myself included is that we feel powerless. I truly feel like politics can be better not just in any one country but world-wide. Politics can be over accepting that a lot of economical things have changed from the past and the things working within past weren't built on sustainable practices which have come to bite us now & that's okay. Together we can all concess on a lot of our wants to satisfy the needs of the people. I really don't know & I really don't want to pretend that I know :/
Really feels like shouting in the void sometimes and quite frankly right now too. Just gotta focus on yourself because at the end of the day, to me it feels like noones gonna come to save us. Perhaps we just have to work with some unjust-ness within the system and accept it as is to hopefully get power to influence. But power corrupts :/ AGGH
A lot of my frustrations come from the fact that I feel as if past was unsustainable & now the present a lot of problems feel distractions to the bottom line economical issue. That's okay but we can work together to fix it rather than having our politics be a distraction almost like a circus because at the end of the day, its my generation which is gonna suffer the most whether its in higher unaffordability of housing world-wide or the fearing towards job safety.
Maybe Ignorance is bliss.
One of the issues I feel right now with my generation and myself included is that we feel powerless. I truly feel like politics can be better not just in any one country but world-wide. Politics can be over accepting that a lot of economical things have changed from the past and the things working within past weren't built on sustainable practices which have come to bite us now & that's okay. Together we can all concess on a lot of our wants to satisfy the needs of the people. I really don't know & I really don't want to pretend that I know :/
Really feels like shouting in the void sometimes and quite frankly right now too. Just gotta focus on yourself because at the end of the day, to me it feels like noones gonna come to save us. Perhaps we just have to work with some unjust-ness within the system and accept it as is to hopefully get power to influence. But power corrupts :/ AGGH
A lot of my frustrations come from the fact that I feel as if past was unsustainable & now the present a lot of problems feel distractions to the bottom line economical issue. That's okay but we can work together to fix it rather than having our politics be a distraction almost like a circus because at the end of the day, its my generation which is gonna suffer the most whether its in higher unaffordability of housing world-wide or the fearing towards job safety.
> Parents can’t help but worry about how a lack of AI preparedness will affect their kids’ future career prospects.
The parents I've interacted with who have this worry tend to be the least tech/AI literate. It reminds me of the pressure some parents in my non-English speaking country place on kids and English teachers. Usually the parents who don't understand English well themselves and are full of anxiety about it.
Realistically, it's been just over 3 years since ChatGPT arrived and the paradigms shift every year. All of us had to learn on the go as adults, in a short time, and we did. So why worry so much about kids missing out?
The parents I've interacted with who have this worry tend to be the least tech/AI literate. It reminds me of the pressure some parents in my non-English speaking country place on kids and English teachers. Usually the parents who don't understand English well themselves and are full of anxiety about it.
Realistically, it's been just over 3 years since ChatGPT arrived and the paradigms shift every year. All of us had to learn on the go as adults, in a short time, and we did. So why worry so much about kids missing out?
Do they also say no to drugs?
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Teen here.
The misinformation about AI is quite the same but one of the larger fears for us is the job aspect more than any environmental concern or the financial concern (which sort of checks out)
Essentially teens with artistic qualities genuinely wonder from what I can tell regarding AI (sort of asking why bother). Teens with programming hobbies feel they are gonna be obsolete in a few years.
The point to me feels different in that considering most HN users are millenials, they joined programming decades ago & some might be close to retirement/already retired, so sometimes I see a sentiment here of letting the next generation sort out with this catastrophe.
I feel as if the short term gains over long term sustainability while being immensely rewarded financially in a concentrated manner on such scale is quite saddening to see.
AI chatbots are scary as well. I have seen people as young as 13 personally seen talking to them & found them that they can escalate in whatever direction someone barely hints at.
Couldn't read the article because WSJ is paywalled & archive.today gives the Error: "Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server."
It would be a pleasure to answer any questions if anyone has for me.
Essentially teens with artistic qualities genuinely wonder from what I can tell regarding AI (sort of asking why bother). Teens with programming hobbies feel they are gonna be obsolete in a few years.
The point to me feels different in that considering most HN users are millenials, they joined programming decades ago & some might be close to retirement/already retired, so sometimes I see a sentiment here of letting the next generation sort out with this catastrophe.
I feel as if the short term gains over long term sustainability while being immensely rewarded financially in a concentrated manner on such scale is quite saddening to see.
AI chatbots are scary as well. I have seen people as young as 13 personally seen talking to them & found them that they can escalate in whatever direction someone barely hints at.
Couldn't read the article because WSJ is paywalled & archive.today gives the Error: "Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server."
It would be a pleasure to answer any questions if anyone has for me.
> most HN users are millenials, they joined programming decades ago & some might be close to retirement/already retired
Millennials are in their 30s-40s. Baby boomers are retiring, and the oldest GenX are close to retirement.
Millennials are in their 30s-40s. Baby boomers are retiring, and the oldest GenX are close to retirement.
The youngest millenials are still 29 this year. If they did a PhD they might not even have entered the workforce yet.
Oops. Yea sorry about that.
My intention with this was that HN users are 30+ (Millenials and Baby boomers and Gen X) and some of the HN users are baby boomers and oldest gen X who are close to retirement/retiring as you mention.
I should've written it (or what was my intention) instead is that "most HN users are millenials, they joined programming decades ago & some HN users might be close to retirement/already retired" (I didn't mean that millenial population is retiring)
My intention with this was that HN users are 30+ (Millenials and Baby boomers and Gen X) and some of the HN users are baby boomers and oldest gen X who are close to retirement/retiring as you mention.
I should've written it (or what was my intention) instead is that "most HN users are millenials, they joined programming decades ago & some HN users might be close to retirement/already retired" (I didn't mean that millenial population is retiring)
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How dare they. The future of the economy depends on their future adoption of AI
Won't someone think of the shareholders!
Take as many guesses you want/need. Have you talked to your kids about LLMs? FOMO with a taste of child development.
If I had any, well: preparation prevents poor performance. More libraries (of both forms). Not subscriptions to model-of-the-day.