They’re asking chatbots questions related to romantic relationships, dealing with issues with family and friends, and even coping with anxiety and other mental health issues, according to a survey of 1,029 high school students by the Center for Democracy & Technology. Students are already turning to generative AI-powered chatbots to ask questions about how to handle their relationships. Generative artificial intelligence tools-chatbots like ChatGPT and the social media app Snapchat’s bot-might pose problems for the development of students’ social-emotional skills: how they learn these skills, how they form relationships, and how they navigate online environments rife with AI-generated disinformation.

We see kids already addicted to their phones without AI.” I don’t know how you mitigate against that. “It’s exciting when technology can promote that, but when it begins to replace that, then it becomes I think a really dangerous problem. “Our humanity and our ability to connect with and empathize and experience positive, loving, caring relationships that are productive for ourselves and society, that is at the core of who we are as humans,” said Melissa Schlinger, the vice president of innovations and partnerships at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, or CASEL.

Who do we think we are