Unlike many parents, children are fearless around AI
Researchers in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences spoke to 41 children between the ages of 5 and 10 after they were invited to play three interactive games with a commercially available robot called Miko that uses generative AI. They found that children tended to believe what the AI robot told them was true. And children were enthusiastic in engaging with the toy robot even if they had never before seen one.
- ▪Researchers in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences spoke to 41 children between the ages of 5 and 10 after they were invited to play three interactive games with a commercially available robot called Miko that uses generative AI.
- ▪They found that children tended to believe what the AI robot told them was true.
- ▪And children were enthusiastic in engaging with the toy robot even if they had never before seen one.
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