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bkotoday at 5:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes I did read it. Here are the relevant sections:

> Many respondents did acknowledge that A.I. might make them more efficient in school and the workplace, he said. But they were concerned about how the technology would affect their creativity and critical thinking skills.

So it's hurting their creativity and critical thinking skills. I wonder if they the existence of cars are hurting their ability to stay in shape.

Revealed preferences from here:

> In the study, about half of young people reported using A.I. on either a daily or weekly basis, similar to the previous year. Just under 20 percent said they did not use A.I.

The rest of the article is mostly anecdotes or vague notions about social skills.

Why don't you contribute to the conversation instead of just telling me I don't understand the issue


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palmoteatoday at 5:32 PM

I don't think you understood it, because you seemed to read past the key findings to make some tired, tired points about "revealed preferences."

> The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27. Young adults’ excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry. [emphasis mine]

> ...

> In interviews, young adults cited a variety of reasons for their reservations about artificial intelligence, including the threat to entry-level jobs, the replacement of human interaction and the spread of A.I.-fueled misinformation on social media.

> Sydney Gill, 19, a freshman at Rice University in Houston, said she had been optimistic about artificial intelligence as a learning tool when she was in high school. Now, as she tries to select her college major, her outlook has become less rosy.

> “I feel like anything that I’m interested in has the potential of maybe getting replaced, even in the next few years,” she said.

A young adult can totally abstain from AI and be negatively affected by all of that. And those are the kinds of things that could make people angry at the technology.

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