Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI
Joe Wilkins
created: Dec. 23, 2025, 5:27 p.m. | updated: Jan. 2, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
As generative AI seeps into virtually every aspect of our daily lives through jobs, entertainment, and even food, you gotta wonder: is anyone not on board with the AI takeover?
But even beyond career viability, students’ anxieties that AI use could make them dumber aren’t unfounded.
Basically, the group using AI gravitated toward an echo chamber moderated by AI, not by their own brains.
In other words, it seems Gen Z has a right to be scared.
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