The Artificial Human - Are Gen Z Already Over AI?

Concerns about jobs, the environment and concentrated power are driving many Gen Zers to see AI's downsides as outweighing its benefits. They're finding themsleves stuck between a rock and a hard place, on one hand they're being told they have to become AI literate if they're ever to get a job, while on the other concerned about how it might undermine their own ability to think.

But this is the most digitally literate generation, they've seen the harm caused by social media and are rightly suspicious of this next technological revolution, and if their critical skills are telling them to be wary, should we listen?

Presenters: Aleks Krotioski and Kevin Fong
Producer: Peter McManus
Researcher: Caoilfhinn McFadden

Published on Wednesday, 23rd September 2026.

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