Milltown Partners survey: 73% of Gen Z undecided on AI

The survey lands as companies and politicians try to gauge where young people stand on AI, given how much they drive tech trends and how large a role AI and data centers played in the US midterm election. The headline finding is not alarm but indecision: 73% of Gen Z adults have not made up their minds. That undecided bloc sits alongside a split expectation of harm — half of Gen Z, 50% of baby boomers, 48% of Gen Xers, and 39% of millennials. The report also points to a paradox in young people's relationship with the technology. Many say AI makes them worse at thinking for themselves and harder to find a job, yet 46% use it every day, second only to millennials. Young people are also less worried than older generations about the existential risk that dominates much of the AI safety discourse, even as 30% of Gen Zers said they sometimes feel guilty using AI — more than double the rate among respondents over 30. Together these results suggest Gen Z's stance is less a verdict on AI than an open question, which may complicate efforts to read the generation as a settled bloc.