However, when the technological ethician and co-founder of the Center of Humane technology, Tristan Harris, warned a room filled with CEO in Davos that “Tsunami Ai came”, bringing both substantial advantages and significant risks with him, his message served as a reminder to question the human impact of this technological revolution.
The cultural change that we are currently experiencing leads to what I call a “human change”. Just as global climate change requires our full attention to attack it, the changes that occur in humanity – our children and the younger generations, in particular – should be a warning that if we do not act now to stop it, we will be confronted with the consequences in the future. Manipulative algorithms, addictive design characteristics and commercial models anchored in “attention economy” exhaust human potential – and do not improve it.
And the biggest risk is for our children.
Innumerable studies show that children spend more time today in the virtual world than engaging in face -to -face exchanges, which contributes to an epidemic of loneliness and an essential loss of social skills – including emotional intelligence, resilience and the ability to nourish relationships in person.
On average, American adolescents spend Until nine o’clock per day watch or use screens, almost including five are spent on social networks. And the impact that this has on the development of the children’s brain is deep: the search for Winston center shows that a frequent exposure to social media hooks over-sensitivity to social feedback, leading to increased anxiety compared to children with less exposure. Likewise, Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and author of “The Axouous Generation”, warned that the excessive use of smartphones and digital devices makes young people less targeted and increasingly ill -equipped to browse the challenges of the real world.
It is not only a distant future – it is something that already happens. Employers are more and more reluctant To hire Gen-Z workers due to bad problems in problem solving, communication problems, lack of attention and inability to manage criticism. In the United States, business noted that recent university graduates have trouble contacting the eyes during interviews – a consequence of a generation which had most of its relationships mediated by a screen.