Explore Gen Z’s views on AI as a coworker, confidant, and coach. EduBirdie survey reveals insights on job fears, data risks, and digital dependence.
Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI
As AI becomes more ubiquitous, Gen Z students are starting to freak out about its effects on their brains.
‘You’re effed’: Palantir CEO says AI ‘will destroy humanities jobs’ – but Gen Z workers are apparently deliberately sabotaging AI rollouts in an effort to fight back
Gen Z workers are fighting against their own redundancy
Gen Z Is Turning Against AI in an Incredible Way
The AI backlash is particularly apparent among Gen Z, a demographic that's at the epicenter of the industry's push for AI adoption.
Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — ‘or you’re neurodivergent’ | Fortune
Billionaire Alex Karp tells Gen Z to skip elite college degrees, as one-fifth of Fortune 500 companies recruit more neurodivergent talent by 2027.
The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
Caught between fears of job loss and social stigma, Gen Z’s opinions of AI are hitting new lows.
Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z's hiring nightmare is real—and it's not about AI eating entry-level jobs | Fortune
"The U.S. labor market experience is peculiar," UBS' Paul Donovan wrote in a UBS note asking, "the kids are alright?"
AI Angst
My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there. As for the genAI tech itself, I guess I’m a moderate; there is a there there, it’s not all slop. But first…
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.
The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: Americans' AI Use Increases While Views On It Sour, Quinnipiac University Poll On AI Finds; 7 In 10 Think AI Will Cut Jobs With Gen Z The Most Pessimistic | Quinnipiac University Poll
"The contradiction between use and trust of AI is striking. Fifty-one percent say they use AI for research, and many also use it for writing, work, and data analysis. But only 21 percent trust AI-generated information most or almost all of the time. Americans are clearly adopting AI, but they are doing so with deep hesitation, not deep trust," said Chetan Jaiswal, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Chair, Department of Computing, Quinnipiac University School of Computing and Engineering.
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was
AI is unlocking new leadership paths for women in tech
A side benefit of the booming interest in GenAI is how it presents opportunities to women in tech.
Reciprocal Research — Empirical AI Consciousness Research
Developing the empirical science of AI consciousness.
AI skeptic Ed Zitron says Industry is scamming us into poverty
Ed Zitron joins The 1600 to bust the myths and fairy tales coming from our AI overlords.
How much of a UX designer’s job can AI really do? Here’s my day…