The importance of teaching self-control to adolescents in the age of artificial intelligence

Abstract

The technological society has reconfigured the current environment, generating new needs and changing the motivations of contemporary humans. In this context, self-control is one of the essential abilities that can contribute to an active adaptation, on one hand, and to the development of psychological resilience to the speed at which technological evolution influences life, on the other. Starting from a brief presentation of both the ideological roots of conceptions about the perfect society, as well as the scientific sources of artificial intelligence, the article addresses the theme of education adapted to the new trends of technologizing the personal, professional, and social environment and emphasizes the necessity for the educational environment (family, school, civil society) to synergistically contribute to the optimization of self-control in order to form a younger generation that is self-aware and active in the process of making informed decisions.