A growing number of courses are teaching U.S. senior citizens about AI.
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00:0089-year-old Barbara Winston takes careful notes at a special lecture for senior citizens.
00:05She's one of a growing number of older Americans who've become fascinated with AI technology.
00:10As the demand to know more spreads, classes like this one are opening across the United
00:14States.
00:15The technology is so interesting and so important that I really felt I need to be better informed
00:23about it.
00:25So this is the beginning of my education.
00:30There are several reasons for this interest among senior citizens.
00:33One is a desire to keep up to date with developments in the world.
00:37I think this is an emerging technology.
00:40Older adults are future-oriented.
00:41They want to know what's going on.
00:43While there's wonderment at all things AI can do, there's also a need to educate older
00:47adults about the sophisticated new tools scammers use to target them.
00:52The American Association of Retired Persons, or AARP, says Americans over 60 are scammed
00:58out of 23.8 billion U.S. dollars a year through various schemes.
01:02These may involve voice cloning and other technological tricks.
01:06It's tricky to kind of find that right balance.
01:08I would say overall that suspicion that's there on the part of seniors is good, but
01:13I don't want them to become paralyzed by their fears and not be willing to do anything online
01:20because they're afraid of their identity getting stolen.
01:23Not everyone feels the need to go jump on ChatGPT or play with AI image generators once
01:27these classes end.
01:28I do want to know how to use it.
01:31I want to understand it, but it's like a lot of other things.
01:38I like to understand it, but it's not for me.
01:41But everyone leaves with an appreciation for a technology that may well radically change
01:45the world.
01:46Leon Lien and John Van Triest for Taiwan Plus.
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