A new health advice is asking AI developer to protect young people: NPR

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A new health advice requires developers of artificial intelligence and educators to do more to protect young people from manipulation and exploitation. Rhitu Chatterjee from NPR reports.

Rhitu Chatterjee, Byline: Systems with artificial intelligence are already widespread in our increasingly digital life.

Mitch Prinstein: It is the part of your e -mail application that concludes a sentence for you, or in the spelling examination.

Chatterjee: Mitch Prinstein is the head of psychology at the American Psychological Association and one of the authors of the new report.

Prinstein: It is embedded in social media where it tells you, what you see and what friends you should have and which order your friends should see.

Chatterjee: It’s not that AI is all bad.

Prinstein: It can really be a great way to start a project to get brainstorming to get feedback.

Chatterjee: But young people and young adults are not fully developed, he says and makes them particularly susceptible to the pitfalls of AI.

Prinstein: We see that children get information from AI who believe they are not true. And they develop relationships with bots to AI, and that may disturb their real, human relationships in a way that we have carefully.

Chatterjee: Prinstein says that there are reports that children are driven to violence and even suicide behavior of bots, and AI poses a higher risk of harassment.

Prinstein: You can generate text or pictures in a way that is incredibly inappropriate for children. It can be used to promote cyberbullying.

CHATTERJEE: That is why the new advice of the American Psychological Association recommends that KI tools for young people be developed in development.

Prinstein: Did we think about how the children’s brains develop or develop their relationship skills to protect children, especially if they are really exposed to inappropriate material or potentially predators?

Chatterjee: For example, build in regular notifications in AI tools that remind young people from interacting with a bot or encouraging suggestions to seek real human interactions. Prinstein says that educators can help protect the youth from damage to the AI. He says that schools only wake up with the damage to social media for the mental health of children.

Prinstein: And we are a bit catching up. I think it is really important for us to remember that we have the power to change this now before the AI ​​goes a little too far and we catch up again.

Chatterjee: Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR News.

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