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If you'd like to participate in a similar exercise with fellow educators or explore more resources to help the youth and teens in your life work intentionally with AI, you can find Carrie and Beck and their fellow researchers at all the Center for Digital Thriving Findings and Tools digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu or via the Project Zero website.

In fact, the team just released a Youth Insights memo with Hope Lab entitled Six Reasons Young People Say They Turn to Generative AI for Emotional Support.

The CDT and Hope Lab wrote this memo to give caring adults a better understanding of how this AI use is unfolding, what young people feel these tools provide that humans may not, and where AI tools offer good support and where they fall short.

It's definitely a worthwhile read.

Thanks for joining us today for the first in our PZC series.

So when we think about how to include young people, we built this alongside young people, this three-phase clustered model through intentional partnerships.

And so in our first phase, we focused on the co-creation and interpretation of a survey, and we did this with Hope Lab.

We conducted a national survey.

We built the survey questions with young people.

As artificial intelligence chatbots become more popular, advocates for teens and young adults are concerned about a growing trend where young people use them for advice instead of reaching out to friends or family.

According to a report from Hope Lab, young people surveyed said they used AI for six different reasons, including not wanting to trauma dump their problems on others and viewing AI as an unbiased third party.

Davian Bush is a policy advocate and political science student at the University of Mississippi.

He says people his age feel that AI offers concrete advice, but he believes the information could potentially be dangerous.