{"id":10260,"date":"2026-04-15T12:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/gen-z-attitude-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:56:58","slug":"gen-z-attitude-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/gen-z-attitude-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z\u2019s Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Traditionally, young people have eagerly embraced hot new technologies \u2014 think Sony\u2019s Walkman, Apple\u2019s iPhone, or Napster \u2014 and become major drivers of their success in the workplace and society.<\/p>\n

And if they spurn a new product \u2014 remember Microsoft\u2019s Zune, Google+, or Amazon\u2019s Fire Phone? \u2014 it\u2019s often a very bad sign.<\/p>\n

That leads us to a new survey<\/a> from Gallup, GSV Ventures and the Walton Family Foundation that examined Gen Z\u2019s attitudes towards AI, a category the <\/strong>tech industry is currently pushing as if its life depended on it \u2014 and found that young people are deeply ambivalent about it, with 48 percent saying that the risks of AI in the workforce outweigh its benefits and a staggering 80 percent saying that using it as a shortcut makes learning more difficult.<\/p>\n

Most damning is Zoomers\u2019 trajectory. Excitement about AI dropped 14 percent since last year and hopefulness fell by nine percent, while the proportion of young people feeling \u201coutright anger\u201d toward the tech spiked from 22 percent last year to 31 percent this year.<\/p>\n

Add it all up, and it\u2019s a major headwind for the tech industry, because if AI has already left a bad taste in the mouths of the youth, the present and future are going to be far more challenging. One particularly grim glimpse: the 20-year-old Texan man who threw a Molotov cocktail<\/a> at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u2019s house last week; he reportedly wrote he was concerned about the risk that AI could pose toward humanity, dovetailing with the findings from the Gallup survey.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderlying this growing skepticism are concerns about AI\u2019s impact on core cognitive and professional skills,\u201d the survey authors wrote. \u201cGen Z remains unconvinced that AI enhances creativity, critical thinking or even efficiency. The majority believe AI-driven efficiency may come at a cost, particularly
to learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another recent survey<\/a>, 44 percent of Gen Z workers admitted to sabotaging their employers\u2019 AI deployments as a form of rebellion. They hate these AI systems because of fears of job displacement<\/a>, the systems\u2019 security holes<\/a>, and that these models paradoxically add more work<\/a> on their shoulders.<\/p>\n

Couple all that with the constant drumbeat of Zoomers who risk becoming part of a permanent underclass<\/a> in the AI economy, and it\u2019s no wonder young people are in despair.<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> ChatGPT Is Sending People Into Obsessive Spirals of Hypochondria<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z\u2019s Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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