Newsweek senior reporter Lauren Giella reported on the finding that breaks the usual adoption pattern: a majority of American adults under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, while two-thirds of them use chatbots anyway. She called Ryan Vet — identified in the piece as an “author and generational futurist” — for the generational half of the explanation. Millennials watched flip phones become smartphones and social media eat the world; the technological change Gen Z has witnessed is the iPhone becoming a slightly better iPhone. Newsweek attributed the velocity gap to him by name, and quoted his account of the trust inversion underneath the numbers: Gen Z grew up amid endlessly generated content, so it defaults to “verify then trust,” where earlier generations operated on “trust but verify.”
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