Factors Influencing Youths Perception of Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Employment

The global unemployment rate in youth present a much bigger increase compared to adults, which indicates the exclusiveness young people have suffered from the job market. AI, as one of the contributors, will worsen youth’s status by being prioritized as one of the hiring factors. In this case, a survey of 520 respondents of various ages is conducted to check different performances of using AI and viewing AI, especially those who are under 25 years old. By using frequency count, response rate and penetration rate and cross (chi-square) analysis, we have come to three results: 1) young groups present high acceptance towards using AI, both from their frequency of using relevant tools and the areas these tools are applied to; 2) young people share the worries that AI will replace the repetitive labor positions, only after the exposure of personal information; 3) Gen AI tools youth use and application areas are in accordance with the way how they spend their time, so school is the most favorable way for knowledge acquisition. It is easy to infer, based on the above results, that young generation has a rather ambivalent attitude towards AI. On one hand, they are used to using AI and Gen AI tools for the improvement of learning, working or even entertainment. On the other hand, they clearly know how AI will do harm to their lives and what AI’s disadvantages are. This research thus gives rise the emergency of integrating relevant AI acquisition into the present education system and future researches are recommended to explore a successful design of AI acquisition in schools at all levels.