{"id":90054,"date":"2026-06-02T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-ai-backlash-why-gen-z-is-pushing-back-the-global-story\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:43:58","slug":"the-ai-backlash-why-gen-z-is-pushing-back-the-global-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-ai-backlash-why-gen-z-is-pushing-back-the-global-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI backlash: Why Gen Z is pushing back | The Global Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2025 Harvard poll of young people in the US found that a majority see AI as a threat to <!--more--> their career prospects. <\/p>\n<p>And in recent months, numerous commencement speakers championing artificial intelligence on US college campuses have been booed by Gen Z graduates.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy signals a growing unease among students about what the technology could mean for jobs, career stability, and the future of work. <\/p>\n<p>We speak to Rachel Janfaza, founder of the Gen Z research firm The Up and Up, about why Gen Z\u2019s relationship with AI is far more complicated than many think.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews #Genz #US<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n00:51 Why were Gen Z graduates booing speakers?<br \/>\n04:27 What do Gen Z students think about AI?<br \/>\n08:00 What is the job market like for Gen Z?<br \/>\n09:32 AI as an opportunity for Gen Z<br \/>\n14:09 What is &#8216;revealed preference&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2025 Harvard poll of young people in the US found that a majority see AI as a threat to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}