‘ AI is here to stay,’ doctor says
Sixty- two percent of Gen Zers are worried about career movement according to unnatural intelligence, or AI, according to a fresh poll.
A career attention study of almost 10, 000 Gen Z students, or those born after 1997, found that, among other things, high school and college students from all 50 states believe AI will reduce their job prospects.
In particular, 11 percentage of the students surveyed responded that they are “extremely worried” AI may reduce work they were interested in, while 13 percent of Gen Z are “very nervous” and 38 percent are” somewhat bothered” about career movement, according to the findings.
The National Society of High School Scholars released the results of the survey this month.
” At this point in time, we recognize that students have a great deal of anxiety about their future jobs, including the role of AI, along with many other factors”, James Lewis, president of NSHSS, told The College Fix via email.
The best thing that we can do is to educate today’s young people on information that will help them understand and manage all of the factors that influence how they find jobs and make decisions about their futures, in my opinion. AI is just one of those facets”, Lewis said.
Although 62 percent of Gen Z students worry that AI will sabotage the jobs they’re interested in, 64 percent of the respondents also stated that they use AI for a variety of reasons in their day-to-day lives.
Fear is not the right attitude toward AI, according to the statement. In a telephone interview with The Master’s University, Professor Dwight Ham stated that” I think young people today need to understand that AI is here to stay.”
AI will “each aspect of our economy and our lives,” Ham predicted. It’s likely to have an impact on our way of life if not more so than the Industrial Revolution did.
The Master’s University, a Christian liberal arts college in Santa Clarita, Calif., offers a special program of study focused on AI. Ham claimed that although AI will replace jobs, it will also lead to new ones.
” Certainly, we do n’t want to go back to the time when we just used horses to transport ourselves between A and B”, Ham said, adding technology advancements can create new solutions and opportunities.
AI will be a big help in many areas of peoples ‘ lives including medicine, transportation, and education, and that is “why a lot of students are embracing artificial intelligence”, Ham said.
They use it to learn new things, write better, and communicate better, and to use it to learn new things. It might be very helpful in our daily lives.
In the survey, the Gen Z students who are utilizing AI do so for brainstorming ( 39 percent ), proofreading ( 33 percent ), data analysis ( 21 percent ), writing drafts ( 19 percent ), and art ( 9 percent ). Four percent said they use AI for other activities.
Ham claimed to have recently written a poem using AI for close friends who had just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. He claimed that Ham’s son works for a company that uses artificial intelligence to allow employees to devote more time to human interaction.
When students were asked about their feelings towards AI, 24 percent were “terrified”, 18 percent were” confused”, and 17 percent were “annoyed”. A third of students, 32 percent, were excited about AI, the survey found.
However, the majority of the students surveyed expressed negative attitudes toward AI, with 59 % saying that AI would have a more negative than positive impact on society over the course of the next ten years.
At 43 percent male and 73 percent female, the disparity between male and female beliefs about AI’s potential negative effects is palpable.
It’s important to understand Gen Z’s current attitude given how new AI is, but also to be aware that it may change as it develops, Lewis wrote in an email to The College Fix.
Ham’s advice to students:” Ask,’ How can I prepare today for my future, understanding that artificial intelligence is going to be part of it, and embrace the changes that are ahead?’ … Instead of being fearful about it, ask yourself,’ How can I take advantage of it?'”
The study was a self- administered online survey, and 10, 072 responses were received from Gen Z students located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, overseas U. S. military bases, and U. S. territories. The study was conducted between January and March.
Respondents had a GPA of 3.72, and 58 percent of them were students of color. Most were high school students.
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