AI anger is growing.
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.
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.
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.
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a great @NewYorker essay by Becca Rothfeld on the humanistic reasons behind the anti-AI movement: AI is arriving too early in young people’s lives, and they fear it will prevent them from growing into fully fledged humans—in a sense, an existential threat.… pic.twitter.com/LgqL4TgJEJ— afra wang (@afrazhaowang) October 9, 2026
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…
Yann Lecun says the next generation of AI will have emotions!
Karpathy says developers have 'AI Psychosis.' Everyone else is next.
Anthropic’s Mythos, Gen Z’s backlash, and Meta’s token binge all point to the same shift: developers are feeling AI first, but not for long.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
An Alarming Number of Gen Z AI Users Think It's Conscious
The majority of young people use AI, and they try to be polite when interacting with chatbots like ChatGPT, but some might have too much of an attachment to it, according to a new study.
AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'
Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.
