Caitlin Kalinowski, the former OpenAI robotics lead, said that people over 30 have a hard time using artificial intelligence because they’ll never really be “natives” to it. She thinks that “AI natives” are young people in their early 20s. They’ve been using AI in their learning and engineering processes from the start, which helps them solve problems faster and more intuitively. Kalinowski said that this generation is like the first people who used the internet and smartphones. They had an easy time getting used to these new technologies. At the same time, the expert offered some good news about the future of the labor market. They said that AI will change hiring practices, but it won’t eliminate entry-level positions. They explained that companies will still need young professionals.
People over 30 might have a harder time using artificial intelligence. Caitlin Kalinowski, the former head of robotics at OpenAI, said this.
She said that the only true AI experts right now are those “in their early 20s.” After all, these people grew up using AI to solve problems from the ground up.
“They use AI so naturally that it’s almost built into their engineering process. They solve their problems in a totally different way because they use AI from the beginning for everything, and they’re actually much faster. It’s really hard to find someone over 30 who can truly be a native AI user,” Kalinowski said.
She talks about how young engineers interact with artificial intelligence technology. This change is already affecting how other companies do things. Meta is pushing its employees to get more comfortable with AI by adding it into their day-to-day work.
At the same time, she commented on the growing concern that artificial intelligence could eliminate a number of entry-level jobs. She said that AI might change how companies hire unskilled workers, but it’s not likely to completely get rid of those jobs.
“I don’t think so,” she said, talking about the idea that young workers might become irrelevant because of artificial intelligence. “I think we need them.”
She also compared the current generation, which uses artificial intelligence, to “early internet natives” who grew up alongside the internet and smartphones. This gave them an intuitive advantage that older workers didn’t have.
“We have to admit that we’re not native speakers of these new technologies,” she said of older engineers and technical workers who are adapting to artificial intelligence later in life.