Gen Z uses AI more than older workers, they’re also more worried about it: Glassdoor study

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While working professionals currently in their 40s, 50s, and 60s are most positive about AI, Gen Z workers are relatively more pessimistic about the technology, despite being the most likely to use AI tools, according to a new research report by Glassdoor, a jobs review site.

The study found that nearly half of Gen X workers, born between 1965 to 1980, write positively about how their companies use AI as the technology’s impact is expected to create more opportunities for senior-level workers.

In particular, the Stanford study found that employment levels for workers aged 22 to 25 years in the most ‘AI-exposed’ occupations are 19 per cent below those of their peers in fields less exposed to AI disruption. The Glassdoor analysis found that workers over 40 said that their employers were well placed to take advantage of the AI boom.

Stanford researchers also found that hiring rates have fallen for entry-level workers in AI-impacted fields. However, a majority of both Gen Z and Gen X workers are still critical of the technology, the study noted.

More than three-quarters of Gen Z have used standalone AI tools, compared to just over a third of Gen X, according to a Deloitte study. Amid growing fears of an AI-driven jobs apocalypse, a new study has found that attitudes toward artificial intelligence are increasingly diverging along generational lines, shaped in part by who is expected to be impacted first.

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Amid growing fears of an AI-driven jobs apocalypse, a new study has found that attitudes toward artificial intelligence are increasingly diverging along generational lines, shaped in part by who is expected to be…
While working professionals currently in their 40s, 50s, and 60s are most positive about AI, Gen Z workers are relatively more pessimistic about the technology, despite being the most likely to use AI tools,…
The study found that nearly half of Gen X workers, born between 1965 to 1980, write positively about how their companies use AI as the technology’s impact is expected to create more opportunities for senior-level…
However, a majority of both Gen Z and Gen X workers are still critical of the technology, the study noted.
In particular, the Stanford study found that employment levels for workers aged 22 to 25 years in the most ‘AI-exposed’ occupations are 19 per cent below those of their peers in fields less exposed to AI disruption.
The Glassdoor analysis found that workers over 40 said that their employers were well placed to take advantage of the AI boom.
Stanford researchers also found that hiring rates have fallen for entry-level workers in AI-impacted fields.
More than three-quarters of Gen Z have used standalone AI tools, compared to just over a third of Gen X, according to a Deloitte study.

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