But older people still trust surveys. So no, we’re doomed.

AI is just one of several serious existential threats the kids will have to deal with. They’re far from alright.

“The kids are alright” does not mean that the world where the kids live is alright, it means that the kids are alright. 😅

We got THIS close to being done with nicotine and bullshit in the air in daily life, and then the kids discovered vaping.

At best, the kids are in the aggregate no better or worse than the generations before them. No generation is going to save us from stupid when stupid is part of our species’ DNA.

Bro. The kids are alright. Not pristine perfect beings who will being about a new era of prosperity.

Besides, why you putting it on “the kids discovered vaping”? That sounds like something a billionaire would say to deflect from the huge lobbying campaign they made to distinguish vapes from cigarettes.

Not sure the kids “discovered” vaping, more like the industry did some targeted marketing on them.

To me it means: the kids are healthy and secure, and coping with the world with a reasonable prospect of a good future. But I agree that it’s a good thing that they aren’t entirely duped by the abusers of AI, if that’s what you mean.

The Epstein class is their biggest threat by far. AI and what they do on private islands are just two of many reasons to get rid of billionaires.

I agree. I really don’t understand why society tolerates, let alone promotes and idolizes, billionaires, while median net worth remains below $200,000, and probably much lower in most of the rest of the world. I don’t think everyone should be forced to be exactly equal but the current disparity between median and Elon is more than 6 orders of magnitude, depending on the day of the week, and even to your average barely a billionaire it is more than 3 orders of magnitude. It’s excessive, and looking at how society is going, fairly clearly unhealthy for everyone involved.

Children of the near future will have more in common with the generation before and directly participating in a World War then they do with the generation after a World War.

Anecdotally, all our young family members don’t trust A.I. at all.

Once, I asked it a question as a joke, (I think it was about "Labubu"s or something I’m out of touch about); they told me it sounds like fake news 😂. I asked the tool if we could trust it, and it said something like “no, don’t trust me”, which was hilarious.

I think kids these days have a good bullshit detector, by necessity.

Yesterday I heard an 11yr old - who I’ve witnessed watching AI brain rot content recently - decry that some channel he was shown was “AI slop”, and was incredulous about being shown it. Now I know kids can change their mind very quickly and will just parrot what they hear and think is cool, but it felt good to hear a young kid say this to another, and essentially be mad about it.

If that is true then it only just developed in the last 2 years. There was a huge shift to the right in youth voters, largely because TikTok promoted Trump.

Yeah I’m very skeptical of that comment. Most people have zero critical thinking skills and the youngest generation are the worst of them all so far.

true but kids should also trust AI to be AI

then it becomes a useful tool

never useful, always negative value