Teenagers as young as 13 are worried artificial intelligence (AI) will have a negative effect on their future careers, a National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) event at Dublin City University heard on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The new NYCI research, Irish Young People Decode AI, found an enthusiasm for the benefits offered by the technology tempered by a belief that there needs to be better education and regulation around it.<\/p>\n
Modelled on the Citizens\u2019 Assembly, the views of participants were gathered through group conversations with expert advice from academics and professionals working in the area available to the young people.<\/p>\n
Addressing the launch of the report, NYCI policy officer Reuban Murray told the audience: \u201cWe were really surprised the issue of jobs and the jobs market across every single jury and from people as young as 13.\u201d<\/p>\n
In many cases, he said, however, the concerns were focused on the growing challenge of connecting with people when applying for a job, as AI is routinely used in the early selection rounds.<\/p>\n
Murray said there were other reservations around using the technology, particularly relating to safety and privacy but the clear message from the young people involved was that they favour tighter regulation, not outright bans and that the regulation should set out different restrictions on under-16s and under-12s.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s so much online about how bad AI is, but it can definitely be useful,\u201d said Nathan Geszczak, a 16-year-old student from Mullingar, who is about to enter sixth year and who uses AI for schoolwork. He feels many young people could do with more support with the technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cYoung people are expected to know so much more about the internet because they grew up with it, but sometimes they just don\u2019t know. They don\u2019t understand the risks associated with AI,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main thing I think people use it for is schoolwork, really, but they are not necessarily using it correctly. Instead of asking a chatbot to explain something to them, they are using it to get the answers, and so a lot of the time, they are not learning anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said being part of a project intended to make use of AI safer for young people was incredible, but he is one of those concerned about the impact it might have on his future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to get into the arts and that\u2019s very threatened by AI. Every time there\u2019s some new development in AI, it seems there are fewer people being commissioned to do work; businesses just use AI to make them a poster. It\u2019s used in music videos [and] film. It\u2019s very discouraging when you\u2019re someone who wants to get into the arts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abeba Birhane, assistant professor of artificial intelligence and computer science at Trinity College Dublin, said Ireland was behind when it came to regulation of social media and now AI because of the Government\u2019s \u201ccosy\u201d relationship with big tech firms.<\/p>\n
She said banning younger users was an \u201ceasy option\u201d for the companies and would not be effective.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we need to do is think of more creative ways of making it safer for young people. We need to be more critical, informed and aware, though, and ask ourselves if it is in their [big tech firms\u2019) interest to create a safe digital space.\u201d<\/p>\n
She cited research done at Trinity\u2019s AI Accountability Lab which found what they considered to be the safest version of one AI chatbot, also to have been the firm\u2019s shortest-lived.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you create models that are generally safer, you are not generating as much revenue,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenagers as young as 13 are worried artificial intelligence (AI) will have a negative effect on their future…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-490244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}