{"id":212200,"date":"2026-05-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/gen-z-increasingly-skeptical-of-and-angry-about-artificial-intelligence-wpxi\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:20:10","slug":"gen-z-increasingly-skeptical-of-and-angry-about-artificial-intelligence-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/gen-z-increasingly-skeptical-of-and-angry-about-artificial-intelligence-wpxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z increasingly skeptical of, and angry about, artificial intelligence \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/gen-z-increasingly\/4M7EQLPMDM47VCOMJIQMWO6I5Y\/\">Gen Z increasingly skeptical of, and angry about, artificial intelligence \u2013 WPXI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/gen-z-increasingly\/4M7EQLPMDM47VCOMJIQMWO6I5Y\/\">https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/gen-z-increasingly\/4M7EQLPMDM47VCOMJIQMWO6I5Y\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 15:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wpxi.com\">www.wpxi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Growing Skepticism and Anger<\/strong>: Gen Z (ages 14-29) is increasingly skeptical and angry about AI, with 31% feeling angry toward AI, a 9 percentage point increase from the previous year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diminished Hopes<\/strong>: Only 22% of Gen Z feel excited about AI, a decline of 14% from last year. Similarly, only 18% feel hopeful, down by nine points.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Workforce and Cognitive Concerns<\/strong>: Nearly half of Gen Z respondents believe AI outweighs its benefits in the workforce. Many are concerned about AI&#8217;s impact on cognitive abilities and professional opportunities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diminished Belief in AI&#8217;s Benefits<\/strong>: Just 46% believe AI will help them learn faster, a drop from 53% the previous year. Similarly, only 37% believe it will help with accurate information finding and idea generation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gender and Racial Disparities<\/strong>: Older Gen Zers, particularly those in K-12, are more likely to be concerned about AI&#8217;s impact on learning than adults. Men and Black respondents are less worried than their peers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact of Recent Issues on AI Distrust<\/strong>: Recent revelations about the harmful nature of social media might link to Gen Z&#8217;s growing distrust in AI, along with notable legal verdicts against tech giants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reluctant Acceptance and Need for Guidance<\/strong>: Despite skepticism, 52% acknowledge the necessity of AI knowledge for college or future work. Gen Z desires help in navigating AI, which schools are increasingly providing with more AI policies in place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ongoing Research<\/strong>: Gallup and Walton Family Foundation continue to monitor Gen Z&#8217;s evolving attitude towards AI, emphasizing the generation\u2019s awareness of technology\u2019s risks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen Z increasingly skeptical of, and angry about, artificial intelligence \u2013 WPXI https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/gen-z-increasingly\/4M7EQLPMDM47VCOMJIQMWO6I5Y\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cmg-cmg-tv-10080-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/resizer\/v2\/https%3A%2F%2Fcloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com%2Fcmg%2FD3B2B4HRXQ2EBN6SQPENPWSXGY.jpg?auth=70d60a9e9c4c60df440b442a19e62b050464e85e2ed1fc8d5b4ee829ec987349&width=1200&height=630&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-212200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212202,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212200\/revisions\/212202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}