Generative KI aus Sicht von Jugendlichen

The Leibniz Institute for Media Research (Hans Bredow Institute) in Hamburg, one of Germany’s main centres of media research, published a qualitative study of how adolescents themselves see generative AI. Instead of figures — conversations and workshops in which the young describe in their own words what they use AI for and what it does to them.

What emerges is a picture of pragmatic, ubiquitous use — for school, for entertainment, for conversation — alongside an often surprisingly sober awareness of the risks: that it is easy to stop thinking for oneself, hard to tell truth from invention, more comfortable to talk to a machine than to a person. Adolescents already have their own words for this.

The value of the entry differs from the DAK data: it says not how many, but how — and whether adults hear the experience at all depends on how the young name it. For parents and teachers, a vocabulary for the conversation. Caveat: qualitative, small sample, no claim to representativeness.