For young people, AI is now a second brain - should we worry?

[Bettie]

3. I talk to my kids a lot

none of them us AI for much of anything.

My oldest gets angry that the search engines give him an AI overview, he says he can "look that shit up myself".

The middle one enjoys looking at AI images and finding all the little "extras" (like feet, hands, etc.) in them, so I guess he uses it for entertainment? He's really good at spotting it too.

Youngest one is still in high school and finds he gets better grades on papers he writes himself than his friends who use AI, so he sees little use in it, except "well Mom, I guess spell check is a basic AI, so I use that, because I think faster than I type!".

They are 17, 23, and 24.