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teens in the United States are coming of age at a time when digital technology is truly ubiquitous, where smartphones are our “constant companions.”
These youth are also, according to national surveys, increasingly in crisis.
Here are some of the most troubling statistics. Between 2009 and 2017, the number of high schoolers who contemplated suicide increased 25 percent. The number of teens diagnosed with clinical depression grew 37 percent between 2005 and 2014. It could be that more teens are willing to admit they’re struggling and are seeking help. But deaths by suicide among teens have increased as well. A recent study found that poisoning attempts by girls ages 10 to 12 increased 268 percent from 2010 to 2017.
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This is a podcast made by Ahead meadia. Make sure to subcribe to Ahead Media. This podcast reveals tings about how AI is going to be a treat for humans, Stephen Hawking has said, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Elon Musk claims that AI is humanity’s “biggest existential threat.”
That might have people asking: Wait, what? But these grand worries are rooted in research. Along with Hawking and Musk, prominent figures at Oxford and UC Berkeley and many of the researchers working in AI today believe that advanced AI systems, if deployed carelessly, could end all life on earth.
Everything is answered in this podcast.
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