{"id":2405,"date":"2025-12-10T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:35:33","slug":"young-people-are-growing-up-fluent-in-ai-and-its-helping-them-stand-apart-from-older-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"Young people are \u2018growing up fluent in AI\u2019 and it’s helping them stand apart from older peers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gen Z, and younger generations, are getting a bad rap. The rise of ChatGPT and other AI tools have brought on complaints that students and young employees rely too much on AI to do everything from completing homework to writing emails.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Yet Kiara Nirghin, a Stanford technologist and Gen Z entrepreneur, sees Gen-Z\u2019s comfort with AI as an asset. \u201cThe younger generation isn\u2019t adopting AI, we\u2019re growing up fluent in AI,\u201d she said at Fortune Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nirghin, who co-founded Chima, a U.S.-based applied AI research lab, explained that young entrepreneurs see coding as something to be done alongside AI agents, rather than done alone and from scratch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AI \u201cfundamentally changes how you write, how you take tests, [and] how you apply to jobs or different applications\u2014because it\u2019s not from the ground up. It\u2019s actually being able to do that with different models or agents, side by side,\u201d Nirghin said. AI fluency sets Gen Z individuals apart from their older peers, allowing them to pioneer use cases and applications of AI that have yet to be unlocked, she explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some experts have argued that AI has eroded our critical thinking abilities. A 2025 study by researchers from MIT\u2019s Media Lab found that users of ChatGPT \u201cconsistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Nirghin argued that this isn\u2019t always true.\u201c The biggest misconception is that young people are using AI to not think things through, [but] I think that really intelligent Gen Z individuals are using it to think even deeper,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The entrepreneur pointed to how running complex research reports through AI could generate insights they may not have thought of otherwise\u2014hence allowing users to get a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n

Moving with the AI models<\/strong><\/h2>\n

AI isn\u2019t just for the young, however, and Nirghin stressed the technology\u2019s ability to help workers at all levels of their careers. \u201cWe\u2019re [only] at the beginning. It is only going to get faster, more advanced and more intelligent each and every model from here on out,\u201d said Nirghin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She likened AI anxiety to climate anxiety\u2014in that it stems from humanity\u2019s fear of not moving fast enough to stay ahead of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past couple of weeks, [there\u2019s] been two model releases that have engulfed the benchmarks in such an enormous way that pretty much everything you\u2019ve ever used AI for can now just be 10x-ed,\u201d Nirghin explained.<\/p>\n

And to avoid being left behind, workers can familiarize themselves with \u201cmain model players\u201d like ChatGPT and Gemini, and learn to use them as co-pilots and tools in everyday life. By continuously using the newest AI models, users will be more comfortable with the new technology, and thus lose their anxiety, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe models right now are as dumb as they are ever going to be, [and] a couple months down the line, we are going to be in a very different landscape. Being able to be really comfortable with that, and having your core tools that you use and get comfortable with is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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