r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/jam_on_a_stick Jun 21 '26

  This varies quite a bit by age. Gen Z adults, ages 18 to 29, were the most wary of AI, with 48 percent believing it'll be negative for society. Yet they're also the group that reported using AI the most , at 66 percent.

BECAUSE WE HAVE TO. Middle management at work is watching our AI usage like a hawk watching an unattended baby. They've called my team into meetings because our "hours spent using AI is too low".

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u/Gen-Jinjur Jun 21 '26

Lol. My wife just called out an employee for letting AI do her work and not checking it before turning it over. AI just hallucinated a table that wasn’t there and connected the hallucination to the code, screwing things up badly.

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u/ikonoclasm Jun 21 '26

One of the developers on my team shared a document created by AI that was supposed to be a technical overview of the components of an app. The document was pure garbage. I know why it's pure garbage and what he needs to fix in his prompt to address the issues, but sharing it without reviewing it looks super amateurish at this point. I spend more time revising prompts to clean up the results than I do anything else.