Sep 23, 2026 · 31 min · 16 segments
Concerns about jobs, the environment and concentrated power are driving many Gen Zers to see AI's downsides as outweighing its benefits. They're finding themsleves stuck between a rock and a hard…
Allegra CuomoGuest
Aleks KrotoskiHost
Rachel GenfazaGuest
Riley HallGuest
Kevin FongHostI've used it for a whole host of things.
For example, for my dissertation, I brain-dumped what my idea was and it came back to me, like, fleshed it out, made the idea more kind of what the lecturers would want to see.
I quite often use it as, like, a sink as well.
So, like, I have this anxiety about a presentation or I have this worry about a relationship.
It's just like having an absolute genius.
in emotional intelligence or in whatever technical subject that you've got as well.
I feel like people use it a bit excessively these days.
Like, what am I going to have for my dinner tonight? Or, like, something so unnecessary where you could just have a wee think.
I'm an architect and I've felt that it can kind of steal my job a little bit.
For example, I got asked to do mood boards last week for, like, what we were going to turn an office into and someone sent me over, or this is what we could look like.
And I was like, oh, so I actually don't have a job right now.
I was like, you've just done it for me by putting it in the chat.
It can be pretty scary.
Personally, I think people get too comfortable with the idea of having such a powerful platform to be able to do all their work for them.
Is it your work or is it completely generated by something that you used and you didn't really put in your own work?
For me personally, as a college student, it's hard to look at these things and then try to filter through it because now it's impacting my thoughts and what I would normally put into a research paper is now being clouded by AI and not any of my own thoughts or personal opinions.
I've used it for a whole host of things.
For example, for my dissertation, I brain-dumped what my idea was and it came back to me, like, fleshed it out, made the idea more kind of what the lecturers would want to see.
I quite often use it as, like, a sink as well.
So, like, I have this anxiety about a presentation or I have this worry about a relationship.
It's just like having an absolute genius.
in emotional intelligence or in whatever technical subject that you've got as well.
I feel like people use it a bit excessively these days.
Like, what am I going to have for my dinner tonight? Or, like, something so unnecessary where you could just have a wee think.
I'm an architect and I've felt that it can kind of steal my job a little bit.
For example, I got asked to do mood boards last week for, like, what we were going to turn an office into and someone sent me over, or this is what we could look like.
And I was like, oh, so I actually don't have a job right now.
I was like, you've just done it for me by putting it in the chat.
It can be pretty scary.
Personally, I think people get too comfortable with the idea of having such a powerful platform to be able to do all their work for them.
Is it your work or is it completely generated by something that you used and you didn't really put in your own work?
For me personally, as a college student, it's hard to look at these things and then try to filter through it because now it's impacting my thoughts and what I would normally put into a research paper is now being clouded by AI and not any of my own thoughts or personal opinions.
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