AI Concerns™

Use a discussion guide to explore AI with a group.

Conversations/Path A

Path: youth

A season of 4–6 gatherings · Young people, and those who sit with them

Youth are not an audience for adult alarm. They are already living with companions, classroom tools, and feeds. This path starts where they are.

Opening question

What do you already use that an adult in this room does not understand well enough to ask a good question about?

To hold together

  • When is a chatbot a tool, and when is it being asked to be a friend?
  • What would a fair classroom tool actually do?
  • How do you tell a true thing from a fluent thing?

A practice

Let youth set the order of the next three gatherings. Adults listen first. Use the map as a shared table, not as a test.

See related concerns

Concerns to name in the room

Principles to sit beside the facts

  • Dignity

    Every person is a protagonist, not a data point.

  • Meaningful conversation

    Conversation builds the language of a new reality.

  • Seeing potential

    Ask what people could become with these tools, not whom they replace.

  • Listening

    Listen to understand, rather than listen to speak.

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