Jon Christian Fløysvik Nordrum and Ingunn Ikdahl presented the Digital Welfare State Project. Fride Haram Klykken and Rosaline Barendregt from AI LEARN and SLATE presented the UngBlikk study, which concerns students' trust in artificial intelligence. This study examines students' own experiences and reflections on the use of AI in their everyday life. The study is a collaboration between the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen.

–  Young people use AI in their everyday lives for many different purposes. We believe it is important to examine what young people know about AI and how they experience using AI in their free time and at school, says Klykken.

Klykken and Barendregt point out that the Directorate of Education and Training's guidelines on AI in education emphasize student involvement, including that teachers should talk to their students about what AI is, what kind of opportunities the use of AI may present them with, but also what kinds of risks it may involve.

The preliminary findings from the UngBlikk study show that students seem to use both the AI tools recommended by the school as well as other “unofficial” AI tools that they already use in their free time. It also seems that the students associate AI primarily with chat applications (chatbots) and have less insight into how other applications may use AI-systems or technologies.

Furthermore, Klykken says that students do not seem particularly concerned about how and what kinds of data such tools collect about them.

* 📢 The UngBlikk study is part of the EduTrust-project, funded by Trond Mohn forskningsstiftelse.