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I'm coy Wire here with your 10 minutes of news right here on CNN 10.

So let's lock in, learn, and finish this week off strong.

Our lead story of the day is about artificial intelligence and AI.

Did you know that in China, AI courses are becoming a mandatory part of the school day?

Students are learning coding, they're learning algorithms at an early age.

As so many of us around the world are thinking about AI and how it could shape our future, this move is raising questions about just how early students should prepare for an AI driven future.

In the United States, teens are facing those questions as they make decisions about college, career and their skills.

CNN's Claire Duffy talked to a few students who are figuring that out right now, and

she is here to share what they have said.

As you know, high school is already a time of big decisions and now artificial intelligence is adding a new layer to how high school students think about what their future might look like.

As students start thinking about life after graduation, AI is also influencing how they think about future college and career plans, especially with entry level jobs poised to be the most disrupted by this new technology.

Has your view or your plans around what to study in college or what you want to pursue as a career?

I know many of my classmates, for example, many of them are there's been an increase in people going to health care because they feel like it's more AI proof.

And I know a few of my college counselors at school said that just within the past two years, when AI has nearly been doubling in usage, there's been a 34% decline in CS major rates over the last two years.

Carissa Tang has been researching how AI is impacting student jobs, the kind of work that so many high schoolers rely on.

What I found is that just within the top 10 teenage jobs, AI will displace 27% of them, which is over 700,000 jobs by 2030.

So for example, the top teenage jobs According to the U.S.

bureau of Labor Statistics, is being a cashier of faster counter worker, a cook.

So we already see AI displacing these, these roles.

Other teens say that uncertainty is exactly why they're trying to understand AI right now.

I'm going to have to have like a general knowledge of how to use AI to better understand like or better make my work quicker and more efficient.

And I think that's like, really important when looking at, like, competitiveness.

If you want to be competitive in a space, you have to be on top of AI, and

I think that's only getting more and more true.

Lincoln Vonk is already using AI as a tool to support his work and prepare for his future.

I would personally tell my peers, try to incorporate AI into what you love.

for someone who is going into a different major, whether it be art or computer science or engineering, anything, it looks like learning the tools and the ins and outs of what AI looks like in your field right now and where it's projected to go in the future.

But not every teen sees AI as something to embrace.

I think it's a very slippery slope from using it as a tool to help us to letting it do things for us.

And I just think nothing good can come of that, especially from for our generation.

I think if we let it do things for us, like, right for us, it's not only killing our creativity, but

also our, like, critical thinking skills.

Syvilla Ruby Brodhead wants to work in dance and theater, and

she worries that artificial intelligence could change the nature of art.

Kind of what's beautiful about seeing this art and this content is that it's people making it and it's not truthful anymore if we're not doing it.

Three teens, three perspectives, one shared reality.

And whether they embrace AI or question it, one thing does seem this new technology is already shaping the path forward for this next generation of workers.

And if you want to hear more of Claire's interviews and other fascinating tech stories, be sure to check out her podcast, Terms of Service with Claire Duffy.

All right, we have to check out one of the coolest videos of the week.

coast Guard helps to free a luxury cruise ship in a let's call it isolating situation, stuck in a thick field of floating ice off the coast of Antarctica.

Earlier this month, the Coast Guard's flagship icebreaker, the Polar Star, was deployed to rescue the ship.

The Polar Star is the Coast Guard's most powerful ship, and

it conducted the rescue on its 50th birthday.

It's nearly 400ft long and can bust through ice up to 21ft thick.

Its engines produce a whopping 75,000 horsepower, or seahorsepower.

Cruise ship was still stuck there in a frozen field.

What else could they Do Anna gonna give it another go.

They've since returned to their normal deployment.

An ongoing mission supporting scientific research in the region.

Which birds hold the Guinness world record for largest nest?

Osprey, albatross, bald eagle or snowy owl?

If you said bald eagles, you are too talented.

A nest built by a pair of the patriotic predators measured nearly 10ft wide and 20ft deep.

Now to some exciting news In California's Big Bear Valley where a beloved pair of birds are egg specting.

Jackie and Shadow are the only known pair of bald eagles currently nesting year round in the San Bernardino National Forest.

They become like celebrities over the years with thousands of fans tuning into a live stream of their ne.

Earlier this week, shelle a bration time as Jackie laid her first two eggs of the season.

But eagle eyed fans noticed something signs that more could be on the way.

They've been leaving the eggs unattended for periods of time, a behavior known as delayed incubation.

It slows the development of the eggs until they are all laid, upping the eaglet's chances of survival as part of a miraculous comeback from for the national bird.

In 1963, there were only about 400 breeding pairs left in the wild.

But in 2007 they were removed from the federal endangered species list.

And thanks to things like the Endangered Species act and the banning of the harmful pesticide DDT, there are now more than 300,000 bald eagles across North America.

Our Angus Watson has more on how Australian farmers helped rescue this marooned marsupial from a forest fire.

As fires raged through this farm in Australia.

The farmers saw Kevin struggling and hurried him to safety.

After they fed and rehydrated him, a vet nurse said Kevin had recovered well enough to return to the wild.

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