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Generation Z is most concerned about AI: Unfortunately, they also use artificial intelligence most often

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A large part of Generation Z rejects AI. Nevertheless, many of them use artificial intelligence in their daily lives. This is also because the generation is “digital natives” and is simply used to employing new technologies or features. One has learned to cope with technology in everyday life.

Generation Z more frequently states that they reject artificial intelligence. Behind this are concerns that AI could take their jobs or have other negative effects on the world.

Pew Research has now surveyed a total of 5,119 people in the USA and wanted to know what people think about AI and how they use chatbots in everyday life. In the so-called survey, they found the following:

  • 48 percent believe that the impact on society will be negative, and 37 percent expect the impact on themselves to be negative.
  • Only 14 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds believe that AI will have positive effects on society, while 20 percent expect that positive effects will impact their personal lives.
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High Rejection Meets High Usage Behavior

Interestingly, however, many young people, despite their significant rejection of AI, continue to actively use it: 66 percent of Generation Z indicate that they have already used a chatbot like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot and continue to do so. This is an increase from 55 percent in 2024, according to the report.

Gabriel Rubin, a professor of law at Montclair State University, who studies Generation Z, stated to Newsweek that he was not surprised by the survey results.

Because young people are “digital natives and dependent on technology,” he said, describing AI as “hardly avoidable.” And he further stated that Generation Z is confronted with contradictions:

Generation Z wonders what skills they will need for the future and receives contradictory messages from older people and mentors. Some say AI makes them dumber, while others tell them they need to learn how to use AI to find a job in the future.

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