How do teenagers feel about the arrival of the AI age?

If all you do is watch talking heads on TV, or attend tech conferences — as I do almost every week — you’ll absorb the opinions of CEOs, technology developers and professors.

Left unrepresented are the voices of students growing up amidst a boom of AI tools, and a confusing cloud of predictions about how they’ll impact the job market over the next few years. Is AI the next great workplace productivity tool, or a silicon-powered job destroyer?

So I assembled a focus group of Massachusetts teens to get their take.

My correspondents ranged in age from 14 to 18. Of the eight students, six were attending (or had graduated from) public schools, and two were in private schools. The group included my own high school senior, who often expre

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