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"AI Is Turning Too Human": How Teenagers Experience and Negotiate AI in Everyday Life

Jianfeng Zhu
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Generative AI is rapidly entering adolescents' everyday lives during a critical period of cognitive, social and emotional development. Yet its adoption is outpacing evidence on how adolescents themselves experience, understand and negotiate its expanding role in their lives. We examined AI-related discourse on r/teenagers from January 2023 to July 2026 using validated keyword-based retrieval and a human-in-the-loop, LLM-assisted thematic analysis. AI-related discussion increased substantially over time, and 11,083 analytically coded posts revealed eight interconnected domains of experience. Everyday and social use was most prevalent (36.8 percent), while discourse increasingly shifted toward authenticity, personal control and safety, and future human roles. Across domains, adolescents questioned when AI should support or substitute for human thinking and creativity, how conversational AI changes relationships and perceptions of agency, what can still be considered authentic, who controls personal information and representation, and what opportunities and roles should remain human. These findings position adolescent AI use not simply as technology adoption, but as an emerging negotiation over AI's place and boundaries in everyday life. Supporting this transition will require developmentally appropriate AI literacy, psychological and social support, and AI systems and policies that protect adolescents' agency, privacy, relationships and opportunities for human development.

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Jianfeng Zhu. 2026-08-18. "AI Is Turning Too Human": How Teenagers Experience and Negotiate AI in Everyday Life. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27824

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