Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic

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• U.S. young adults are now more concerned than enthusiastic about AI, signaling a “growing backlash” against the technology.
• The introduction of AI is characterized as “one of the worst introductions of a technology ever,” attributed to company leaders who act as if they are “immune to any consequences.”
• AI chatbots present an “epistemic horror” by producing content with “totally hallucinated sources and made up numbers,” with training data potentially “poisoned” by well-funded actors to encode biased historical narratives (e.g., regarding conflicts in Gaza or Syria).
• Users are warned that historical and sensitive information generated by AI can be deliberately manipulated, necessitating extreme skepticism and critical evaluation of AI-produced content.