AI is here for a while, and problems and risks now start to be very clear in classrooms.
I wonder what you would come up with.
Guidelines, boundaries and/or [places where it is or is-not ok] about Ai. In the classroom, and at school. Long term (10+ years) student, pedagogical and education health as the main premise.
What would you put up as input for an e.g. fictional guideline poster?
Last few times in Amsterdam, I really started to notice this: something felt a little off. Young adults were a little too intense. So I looked up the numbers:(sources: yearly Antenna Amsterdam research + Trimbos, 2025)
1 in 5 of the 18-34 year cohort have reported using cocaine last month!!! About 80% of that cohort last year. Numbers have doubled last 5-7 years and ~quadrupled since 2005, and same is true for ketamine, xtc, 2cb and a few others.
That's a frigging epidemic.
Talked to some people of 20-25yo. Gen Z, a few months after I first noticed, really open about it: "Yes, it is happening a lot." They said it sucks but everyone does it.
Just looked around when I was at Blaffende Vis terrace, at all the kids on the streets, and so many have a too intense, coked up vibe. Numbers seem to add up.
I also tend to see a lot of pretty fallen-in jawlines and cheeks since last year, and am not sure if this is related.
Yet no one talks about this? Femke Halsema should make this one of her main priority points. But where is she? Letting a whole generation slide to heavy cocaine (ketamine + cocaine + xtc + 2cb) use as a default on the streets and in everyday life is cynical and highly unethical.
1 in 5 of the 18-34 year olds. Last month. We are fucking up a generation.
Should this be on the political agenda?
PS. If you are gen Z or otherwise and currently using, please don't feel attacked. This is meant as community worry and care, not personal attacks. I really would like people who use cocaine sometimes or quite often to chime in and talk about their own experiences, possible hardships and solutions.