In recent years, smart voice assistants such as Xiaoai classmate , Xiaodu Xiaodu and other smart voice assistants have entered thousands of households, and some families with children are equipped with smart voice assistants to play nursery rhymes, etc. But does voice assistant have any impact on children?
A new study finds voice-controlled smart devices like Alexa and Siri can have a long-term impact on children’s “empathy, empathy and critical thinking.”
Frequent interaction with voice assistants may have “long-term effects on empathy, compassion, and critical thinking” on children.
Many modern smartphones have voice assistants based on artificial intelligence (AI). While these devices are very convenient, they also raise concerns.
Analysis of childhood disease archives published in journals The interaction with voice assistants will inhibit children's social and emotional development.
Smart devices are bad for children talker
According to researchers, AI assistants are not created for communication, but for finding specific information and sending out short answers. Frequent interactions with them can lead to delays in social development. Communication with real people to teach etiquette and behavior - artificial intelligence will not be able to teach children to behave politely, saying "Thank you" and "Please".
Kids also began to imitate their tone, volume, accent and tone .
In addition, the system is limited in terms of the types of questions that can be answered. "As a result, children will internalize into very narrow forms of problem and always appear in the form of demand," said the researchers.
Finally, there is also the problem of "non-naive" content. Not every adult can protect the installation of "parent-controlled" on the device, which leads to dangerous information for children to consume. For example, there was an Alexa incident from Amazon last year. Provide a ten-year-old girl inserts a coin into a work socket. Fortunately, this girl is smarter.
In short, scientists call for more research to study the impact of voice assistants on child development in more detail.
