OpenAI首席执行官Sam Altman在播客节目中表达了对年轻一代的担忧，但他认为，真正影响青少年心智的并非人工智能，而是短视频平台带来的“多巴胺刺激”。他指出，这种持续的感官刺激可能以一种非常深刻的方式影响儿童的大脑发育。相比之下，Altman更看好年轻一代适应AI技术的能力，认为他们能够自然地掌握新技术并适应新的就业机会。他反而对中老年群体适应AI技术的过程表示担忧。此外，Altman也提到，年轻人过度依赖ChatGPT进行决策可能存在潜在风险，强调自主决策的重要性。

🎯 **短视频成瘾对青少年大脑发育的深远影响：** Sam Altman认为，短视频平台提供的“多巴胺刺激”是当前最令人担忧的问题，可能以非常深刻的方式重塑儿童的大脑发育，这比AI技术本身对年轻人的影响更为直接和紧迫。

💡 **AI时代下年轻一代的适应性：** Altman对年轻人适应AI技术的前景持乐观态度，他认为随着新技术的出现，成长在其中的一代人总是能够更自然地掌握并熟练运用，并找到新的工作机会，这是一种历史规律。

⏳ **中老年群体适应AI的挑战：** 与年轻人相比，Altman对50岁以上人群适应AI技术表示担忧。他指出，对于已经形成固有工作和生活方式的年长者来说，学习和适应颠覆性的新技术可能更加困难，成功率不一定高。

🤔 **过度依赖AI决策的风险：** Altman也强调了年轻人过度依赖ChatGPT等AI工具进行决策的潜在风险，即使AI提供的建议可能更优，但集体放弃自主决策，完全听从AI的指导，可能会带来危险且令人不安的后果。

Sam Altman says it's dopamine-drip social feeds, not AI, that's rewiring kids' minds.The OpenAI chief said kids will do fine in the age of AI as compared to their parents."When there's new technology, people that grow up with it, they're always fluent," Altman said.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is worried the kids won't be alright.

Altman was speaking to podcaster Theo Von in an interview that aired Wednesday when he was asked how parents could prepare their children for the AI age.

Altman said what really worried him was the psychological impact addictive social media platforms could have on children.

"I do have worries about kids in technology. I think this short video feed dopamine hit, it feels like it's probably messing with kids' brain development in a super deep way," he said.

Representatives for Altman did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Altman said in his interview with Von that when it comes to AI, he was more concerned about how the older generation would adapt to it.

The younger generation, meanwhile, "will be fine," Altman said.

"If you look at the history of the world here, when there's new technology, people that grow up with it, they're always fluent. They always figure out what to do. They always learn the new kind of jobs," Altman said.

"But if you're a 50-year-old and you have to learn to do things in a very different way, that doesn't always work," he added.

But that's not to say that AI won't have an impact on youths.

On Tuesday, Altman said at a Federal Reserve banking event that young people were over-relying on ChatGPT for decision-making.

"Even if ChatGPT gives way better advice than any human therapist, something about collectively deciding we're going to live our lives the way AI tells us feels bad and dangerous," Altman said.

Altman isn't the only one who has talked about the dangers posed by social media platforms to children.

Jonathan Haidt, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, told BI in January that social media apps were "severely damaging children in the Western world." Haidt is best known for his book "The Anxious Generation" where he argued that social media and smartphones were affecting the attention spans of young people.

"The decimation of human attention around the world might even be a bigger cost to humanity than the mental health and mental illness epidemic," Haidt said.