Young Brazilians have information and have integrated artificial intelligence (AI) into their daily lives with the popularization of digital robots (chatbots) and platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, shows a survey of 2 thousand young people between 14 and 29 years old carried out by Nexus in partnership with Demà, an educational technology company that offers solutions to improve learning, mainly for young people.
Among young people from working classes, the fear is greater and worsens with less access to technology and training in the use of digital tools. Yet a large proportion of young people from socially vulnerable families have information about what AI is and the challenges it poses in the labor market.
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Around 90% of respondents have already heard of AI, including those in vulnerable situations (84%).
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According to the survey, around 90% of respondents are aware of AI, a margin that is not far from the reality of people from lower classes. In vulnerable families, this rate is 84%. The vast majority agree on the need to know the rules of AI and their importance:
- 65% consider it important to master AI tools for their future career
- 38% say that knowing how to use AI is an important factor in getting a quality job.
However, for those who are distressed, the progress and popularization of generative AI is frightening. Of the 2,000 young people surveyed, 47% say they feel more worried than excited about the advances of digital automation on human activities as they prepare to enter or take their first steps into the job market.
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Even if they fear losing their jobs to machines, young people are becoming more and more familiar with new technologies. Seven out of ten young people say they are in almost daily contact with tools or content based on artificial intelligence.
“Next generation Google”
For the majority, AI already functions as a sort of “next generation Google”, used mainly for research, studies, text production and work assistance.
In a country marked by inequalities, the research identified in the sample young people from socially vulnerable families who benefit from social benefits such as Bolsa Família thanks to their registration in the Single Registry (CadÚnico). Young people in these households show that they have less daily contact with technology, but they are the group that shows the most interest in taking AI courses.
“The figures clearly show that not only access to technology, but also to knowledge itself, although no longer as restricted as it once was in a more elitist past, is still not ideal when comparing social and economic indicators,” emphasizes Juan Carlos Moreno, director of Demà.
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Seven in ten respondents believe that AI tends to help more than harm the learning process. Young people mainly cite support for research and studies.
On the other hand, among those who see risks, concerns such as over-reliance on technology, loss of critical thinking, and the feeling that AI can “eliminate the need to study” emerge.
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