Young Hungarians and AI: embracing the future or fearing It?

The National Media and Communications Authority (NMHH) ‘s communications directorate said on Tuesday that it has carried out a study surveying the views of 13-16-year-olds on AI and AI-generated content.

A survey of 1,197 young Hungarians conducted last autumn found that 76.5 percent have experience using some kind of AI-based programme. Fully 71.3 percent said they have used AI to help them with school assignments.

Most respondents said AI was useful to humans, with 50.6 percent saying they encountered content they did not realise was AI-generated. According to the study, a significant share of children did not recognise AI-generated content despite saying they tended to.

The NMHH said that whereas in international comparisons, respondents to similar surveys tend to identify security risks as the number one concern when it comes to AI, Hungarian respondents say the possibility of job losses (29.6 percent) and the loss of human relationships (23.6 percent) were their biggest concerns.

In terms of place of residence, 12.8% of respondents lived in Budapest, 57.9% in a rural town and 29.3% in a village at the time of the survey. Thus, we can see that the majority of respondents completed the survey from a small town or small village in the countryside, while only a smaller proportion of respondents came from the capital.

97.8% of young people surveyed had heard of AI, while only 2.2% said they had not heard of it before.There were no significant differences by age group, with almost the same response rate for 13-16 year olds, as shown in the table below.

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