Artificial intelligence available everywhere and for everyone – the phenomenon even a decade ago is tantamount to flying cars – present it is already a permanent part of human life. In just 5 days after the debut in November 2022, ChatGPT has already gained over a million recipients – about 10% of the adult planet population. Despite the current downward trend for another models of AI (Gemini from Google), ChatGPT inactive boasts 900-millionthe number of weekly users, and above all: revolutionising permanently almost all aspects of everyday life.
The meaning of artificial intelligence is increasingly understood.
New technology permeates professional and social life, affects relationships, the way you spend your free time, learning and general functioning.
The change is felt by the full society, especially its youngest representatives. Speech about the Alpha generation (children born after 2010) and the preceding Z generation (1997-2010). It is for the second that the AI is simply a peculiarly lively subject. The interaction with artificial intelligence has become a regular habit, and its effects are considered a reasonably unfortunate mix of advancement and all kinds of facilitations, including destabilization of the current lifestyle.
Generation Z is the easiest to specify as a transitional generation, even experimental, due to the fact that torn between the planet without AI and the imagination of the close future, in which artificial intelligence will be present everywhere. No 1 has foreseen a script in which we will gotta worry about career prospects or education in the context of the AI – and yet, among another things, this is what the "Zets" collide with. What are the reactions and needs associated with this? What has changed, and with what consequences for the future?
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Relationship Algorithm
It turns out that talking about artificial intelligence is increasingly being replaced... by talking to artificial intelligence. Searching for companionship in the form of conversation with chatbot becomes a popular alternate to establishing a relation with man – according to Investigations 64% of subjects aged 9 to 17 years benefit from this solution in the UK.
There are many indications that akin statistic can besides be applied to Poland; in the youth environment, dialog with AI is simply a form of stress relief and stress relief. After a hard day at school, it is much easier to relax with a hassle-free, 24-hour chatbot than to engage with a usually tired and reluctant parent. AI will perceive to everything and show no pretension – she will ask the right questions and effort to realize the interviewer, aid make harder decisions and supply virtual support. Just give a detailed description of the situation, most frequently referring to the challenges facing young people – the first occupation interview, quarreling with friends or a fight with their parents – and asking to make possible options or take a position, which allows to avoid later mistakes and awkwardness. AI is almost like a scientist who will diagnose the problem and, through a calm conversation, will work out the best way – and all of this is done free and anonymously.
The main reason for specified a decision is its apparent effectiveness, while the deficiency of effort from man. Talking to AI eliminates the request for confrontation, thereby ensuring a sense of security. Turning to artificial intelligence, however, results in the gradual failure of the ability to build relationships based not only on comfort, but besides on differences of opinion, different habits and planet views. The concept of a valuable interlocutor is limited to 1 requirement: the opinion of both participants in the dialog must overlap. And not only will he conduct the conversation in specified a way as to satisfy the interviewer as much as possible, but he will besides keep changing according to his needs.
A imagination of a practically seamless relation is very tempting for young people who frequently feel unheard, suppressed or marginalized. Experts pay peculiar attention to the function of adults in deepening this problem.
Artificial intelligence is predictable, but it is careful and devotes all attention to the young recipient, which is lacking from the environment – including parents or teachers.
However, the convenience of dialog with AI does not convey the negative effects of this solution. The search for understanding, subtlety in speech or empathy in dealing with another human being are among the most crucial soft competences, consisting of the quality of social functioning that cannot be learned by talking to artificial intelligence. AI does not require what people request to feel heard and cared for – eye contact, contact or simple memory of birthdays – but it can besides not supply it completely. That is why it is so crucial to start paying attention to the quality of everyday contacts. If household or social relationships do not give adequate satisfaction, youths will start looking elsewhere.
Remote learning
Among the many relationships of young people, the transformation has besides fallen into the school. Work written by AI, homework or repetition of lesson material with the aid of chatbots is the norm among young people and besides the most common goal of utilizing artificial intelligence – according to IT Girls Foundation report (as of December 2024) nearly 2 thirds of students do so, 58% of them declare that they usage AI to explain hard issues and half of the respondents usage it to “create” written works. At the same time, 57% of students realise that AI can have a negative impact on their further education. Given the velocity at which artificial intelligence has penetrated education and the simultaneous deficiency of education improvement that responds to fresh technological challenges and supports pupils in substance, this is simply a legitimate concern.
When you look at the lessons, you can get the impression that these statistic are inactive so low. For it is hard to find any student who, for once, did not usage AI as a form of aid in learning both at home and at school in classes.
The phones hidden under the bench are utilized to translate information on an ongoing basis erstwhile they are not explained sufficiently clearly in the schoolroom (a situation amazingly common...).
Artificial intelligence is besides frequently utilized – secretly – during individual and group work and all forms of checking cognition at school, about independent learning at home, not to mention – preparation for cards or tests in most students is done by re-explaining the subject by AI or solving the tests it generates. Materials created by artificial intelligence can be freely moderated, based on multiple sources and thus become much more useful than average exercises in textbooks.
This image only confirms the conclusion that has been made for 2 years:
Artificial intelligence becomes the equivalent of a teacher or tutor.
AI has a akin scope of competences – it is able to explain the same issues, check the level of knowledge, simulate the oral exam or talk in any abroad language. A crucial value is the virtually inexhaustible number of variants according to which it can present more demanding material to users. This state of affairs clearly points to the request for changes in education on 2 levels: the programme basis for school subjects and the implementation of youth into the AI planet itself.
There is simply a paradox: although the function of artificial intelligence is officially not included in any way in the guidelines for any object, in fact it is utilized by students to teach each one. The AI phenomenon in discipline consists not only of free and universal accessibility (as opposed to, for example, paid tutoring), but mainly on versatility, which the education strategy requires from students all day. The accomplishment of the same good results in both Polish, English, biology and physics is virtually impossible for most people – but it is possible for AI, who has cognition from each of the fields defined by the programming basis, thus revealing the absurdity of the erstwhile "science" by memory of most of them. Artificial intelligence gives young people the chance to choose the subjects they want to make and almost completely reject those they don't care about, while maintaining good grades from each class.
However, what is an amazing convenience for most students should be an emergency signal for education – so frequently the usage of artificial intelligence is not only a natural effect of technological transformation, but besides a consequence of the incriminating schoolroom material, not adapted to the planet in which the performance of any school assignment no longer requires the student's engagement – apart from writing a chatbot command.
Generate the Future
Although it may seem that the appearance of the AI has its own affirmative consequences, the reality is different – especially in the labour market, which in just a fewer years has changed by 1 100 and eighty degrees and is undergoing intense transformations. By WorkMonitor report (as of 2026), during the erstwhile year the number of announcements requiring work skills with AI increased by 1587%! At the same time, about 65% of workers say that in the light of technological advancement they request to improve their qualifications. akin concerns reflect advanced school students –
in vocational counseling classes, the most frequently asked question is the impact of AI on a given profession.
How do those who are just increasing up respond to this turn of events, and thus into a professional area? Despite the expected ease of usage of artificial intelligence, which in investigation for Work. declares generation Z (39% of respondents say it is not a problem for them), there is no shortage of clearly afraid forecasts: 32% fear the impact of AI on their workplace and 38% feel a real professional threat. The situation does not improve the announced automation of parts of posts: most common e.g. cashiers and warehousers, but besides translators, accountants or administrative staff. specified a regulation makes it questionable not only to meet expectations of future work, but besides to gain first professional experience and financial autonomy by young people. This is likely to be peculiarly evident to students who have obtained first financial stableness and practices mostly through alleged casual work, usually simple and done schematically – and thus becoming easier in ordering AI alternatively of man. Nor is the possible of emerging fresh professions related to artificial intelligence. These will already be dedicated to the youngest generation – Generation Alpha. Modern youths are likely to neglect to “catch” and are forced to choose from these professions, which may be due to expire over the next years.
So what does the labour marketplace gotta offer Generation Z? According to her representatives – mainly chaos, unstable improvement conditions and uncertainty about the right career choice.
The consequences of the evolution of the professions – those that inactive exist, but besides those that are not yet going to appear due to the breakthrough – are not yet specified. It is very possible that virtually all post will require enhanced IT skills.
This fast change, for which no 1 was prepared, complicates the already hard choice of the way of life which young people face. Unforeseeable technological issues only revived erstwhile most generations Z is already at the end of its adventure with education (or it ended for good), so the education strategy will most likely not be able to supply them with appropriate preparation, even with possible reforms; they will enter simply besides late in relation to the appearance of AI. On the another hand, those students who are inactive far from writing their GED seem to dislike how the question of artificial intelligence is (not) dealt with in classes.
This reveals another series of problems: what should be an alternate origin of cognition about AI if systemic teaching fails?
Impact on wall
Artificial intelligence has introduced a dilemma into everyday life that has not yet been touched. What will be the real usefulness of the dream profession in a fewer years?
How do you choose a occupation that will not become obsolete before graduation?
What AI competences should be acquired to become a valuable candidate in the labour market? It is not hard to wonder that these questions are frequently repeated in secondary schools in vocational counseling classes. Unfortunately, they stay without a satisfactory answer.
The AI planet guides are no longer parents (mainly generation X: 1965-1980), nor are older generations. Computer education in schools where most AI is banned or completely ignored by teachers is besides not of large benefit. By Investigations Almost two-thirds of students say that they do not anticipate teachers to aid them usage artificial intelligence – but given specified abrupt changes, it is no longer about learning to usage it, but about its skillful usage in the future, especially in the labour market. In this respect, young people are left alone. Loneliness, the sense of displacement of reality by education and the deficiency of a substantive mention point are the obstacles they face all day.
The request to break the IT taboo makes the youth themselves public. "Unfortunately, from the position of a advanced school student, we seldom discuss AI and its influence on the reality around us. The main reason for this is not the deficiency of students' awareness of the existence of tools specified as AI, but they have become obstinate, absolutely unsuited to the dynamically changing world's education system," says Krzysztof Lipa, a 17-year-old associate of the Youth Municipal Council in Łódź, pointing mainly to the archaicness of education in the approach to technology (perception of AI only in the category of a competitor in the labour market, alternatively than – a possible ally in expanding productivity) and disappointingly tiny utility of activities which should theoretically prepare young people for entering adulthood. "This leads to a curiosity situation in which the usage of AI by students is simply a subject deliberately overlooked by the system. all teacher is well aware that the students given homework prescribe from ChatuGPT and akin tools. alternatively of teaching them to usage them and having a discussion about this with young people, the strategy pretends not to see the problem, it defines the usage of AI as something inherently wrong. ... Education is not only a failure to keep up with change, it is inactive trying to fight these changes, with mediocre results.”
Hope can be seen in the MEN consultation with teachers launched in January on changes in the curriculum for secondary schools. However, the results will should be waited – the fresh arrangements are not due to apply until September 2027.
What's next?
AI filled the gap in its regular functioning; we have received a wide-ranging, multi-tasking tool, which is now no longer a passive component of reality, but a real contributor. The changes made in fresh years have been irreversible, and what is more, everything indicates that they are only to be the beginning of a completely fresh era in which man will increasingly compete with the machine. It is on how many levels this competition will turn into a permanent cooperation that is not yet obvious, although the answers can be expected practically all day, as the AI improves.
At this point, the most crucial thing is to start a dialog on artificial intelligence and changes that undoubtedly await the generation of Z – future students and employees.
Youths want and should learn about the possibilities of AI, but most frequently do not have access to professional cognition sources. This needs to be addressed – both systematically (through decently upgraded education) and individually and open to discussion. Young people deserve appropriate preparation for fresh challenges and a reasonable introduction to adulthood – without fear for a professional future and education.
