Artificial Intelligence is increasingly frightening to students, who are therefore asking en masse to be able to study it in school: 8 out of 10 would like AI to be introduced as a skill to be developed during classes. It is a scenario that is probably the child of an increasing use - for 1 in 2 it is "very frequent" - of the various generative AIs as a shortcut for solving problems and producing papers. Unveiling this dynamic is a survey of a sample of 2,500 high school students. Compared with the survey conducted 12 months ago, the "fearful" have increased by about 10% - today they are 60% of respondents - albeit with varying gradations: 31% believe that every sector is at risk, while another 29% think the impact will be significant, but will not affect all economic spheres. The remaining third of the sample - just under 30% - sees technological development as an opportunity for the emergence of new professions, replacing others destined to become obsolete. Whether it is fear or interest that moves them, however, young people have a very specific request to address to institutions: to make AI a subject of study, the focus of ad hoc lessons. More than 80% of pupils intercepted by the survey ask for this: 41% would like it to become a compulsory subject, 40% would make it an optional study content. Fewer than 1 in 5 students, then, think the topic should stay out of classrooms.
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