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Self-replacement risk: Young people see what adults are slow to name Beatriz Moutinho, moderating and speaking in the youth session, articulated risks that the research sessions had danced around. She described an escalation pattern: students begin by using AI for discrete tasks, progress to using it for structuring their thinking, and eventually use it to form opinions and make personal decisions. “We are giving our first drafts of our first thoughts in our brain directly to AI before even fully structuring them,” she said. Her concept of “self-replacement” was the most original intellectual contribution of the day. It is not that AI will take young people’s jobs. It is that young people will preemptively delegate the formation of their own professional voice to AI, producing homogenised output that makes them indistinguishable from the machine. “This loss of differentiation might be something to look out for,” Moutinho said, “especially in the job market.” She also identified what she called a “flipped AI divide”: wealthier students retain access to human support while lower-income students become increasingly reliant on AI alone. This inverts the optimistic narrative of AI as an equaliser.