Socio-emotional Determinants of Students’ Attitude to Artificial Intelligence

The purpose of the research was to analyze students’ attitudes toward AI in educational and socio-emotional dimensions. The study, which involved 117 students from 3 universities, used the author’s questionnaire and a shortened version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The study made it possible to observe high levels of depression, anxiety, and stress among the respondents, as well as a correlation between high levels of anxiety and the prediction of AI’s development towards acquiring human characteristics. Students are generally familiar with AI, although some of them do not see the need to use it in their studies.

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