Because they are less enmeshed in existing structures, teenagers tend to be more willing to play around with new technology – finding their own shortcuts and uses.
When 16-year-old Lara Jeetley checks her phone in the morning she scrolls through the messages her friends have sent her and then, if there’s something on her mind, she opens ChatGPT, asks a question out loud and listens to the answer.
“Sometimes I ask things I was thinking about overnight,” she says. “Just random thoughts. Or if I had an interesting dream, I might ask about that.”
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Financial Times
Elaine Moore is Tech comment editor at the Financial Times.
