How do young people experience rapidly evolving technologies like GenAI? This webinar draws on existing research to discuss how they engage with and make sense of GenAI in education.

The MishMash - Centre for AI & Creativity welcomes AI LEARN Researcher Fride H. Klykken to give a talk entitled "Young people’s practices with Generative AI: Emerging relationships of (dis)trust". Like the AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning (AI LEARN), MishMash is one of six national AI centers funded by The Research Council of Norway.

Abstract

GenAI has become widely accessible and embedded in many young people’s everyday (educational) practices, requiring them to navigate uncertainties of how to engage responsibly with rapidly evolving technologies. Understanding young people’s experiences is key, and this presentation draws on existing research to discuss how they engage with and make sense of GenAI in education. The talk will also incorporate empirical examples from an ongoing study on how upper secondary students articulate emerging (and sometimes contradictory) relationships of (dis)trust involving, for instance, tools, teachers, tech companies, and selves. Following a relational and situational approach to trust and technology (Pink & Quilty, 2025), allows discussions of how relationships of trust can be understood as continually attuned and adjusted in everyday practices, and the presentation invites reflections on educational responsibilities in supporting students as active and critical stakeholders in uncertain, AI-entangled futures.  

Bio

Fride Haram Klykken is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE), University of Bergen. Her research interest lies at the intersection of education, technology, and relational ethics, with a particular focus on how digital and AI technologies shape educational practice. Klykken’s postdoctoral research is part of the EduTrust AI project, Artificial Intelligence in Education: Layers of Trust, funded by Trond Mohn Research Foundation. In AI LEARN, she co-leads tasks on citizens’ agencies in the AI society (children to seniors) and innovative capacity-building initiatives, including game‑based and participatory approaches.

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