Maybe the biggest shock is that younger citizens aged 18-24 are among the most likely to want to get rid of AI \u2013 55% would make it disappear if they could. All older age groups are less inclined to feel so strongly.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Considering only 27% of the youngest age group would not eliminate GenAI, it means that they\u2019re twice as likely to want to get rid of it, even though other studies indicate they could be among its most active users.<\/p>\n Latest Videos From While autonomous, agentic AI is dominating the headlines for its ability to act on users\u2019 behalves, generative AI is still prevalent due to its ability to create content from existing context. Its uses cases span search engines, smartphones, productivity software, social media platforms, customer service systems and a lot more.<\/p>\n Despite multibillion-dollar investments from companies like OpenAI, Google<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a>, Anthropic and Meta to try and embed this technology seamlessly into the apps and services we use daily, it\u2019s clear that the British public still see it as a hindrance.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n But more than that, the public still worries that AI could replace human jobs as tech giants continue to announce sweeping layoffs years after generative AI reached mass popularity in late 2022.<\/p>\n As for why younger audiences might be more anti-AI, it could just be that greater exposure creates greater scepticism. 18-24-year-olds are also generally the most likely to use social media platforms, where AI-generated misinformation is frequently disseminated, and they\u2019re also among those hardest hit by an apparent loss in entry-level job roles.<\/p>\n AI trust has fallen since ChatGPT<\/p>\n Separately, a 2025 study<\/a> exploring public perception of AI before and after ChatGPT found a drop in satisfaction, noting higher support for human-only decision-making and lower support for AI-only decision-making.<\/p>\n \u201cThe proportion of respondents finding AI \u2018not acceptable at all\u2019 increased from 23% to 30%,\u201d the authors summarized.<\/p>\n Unease, poor trust and dissatisfaction surrounding AI are actually global themes, with another US-biased study<\/a> revealing that 50% of Americans feel more concerned than excited about the tech. Among the cited effects are poorer creative thinking and relationship forming, but Americans are slightly more optimistic about AI\u2019s impacts on problem solving.<\/p>\n What to read next<\/p>\n YouGov also asked<\/a> UK citizens about their perception of ChatGPT specifically, ahead of the company\u2019s IPO. The response was largely positive, with consumer trust in OpenAI\u2019s offering generally higher than the average.<\/p>\n Environmental and sustainability concerns are also of great importance when it comes to public perception \u2013 several US states, cities and regions have imposed moratoriums on new data center projects in recent months, citing energy, water and land constraints.<\/p>\n Nearly half (48%) of UK adults said<\/a> they would oppose a new AI data center in their local area, compared with support from just 20% \u2013 again, a sentiment that was most apparent among younger citizens, which challenges preconceptions that 18-24-year-olds are the most pro-AI.<\/p>\n So while tech giants continue to pour billions into the AI race, it\u2019s clear they still have to win over the exact citizens their products target.<\/p>\n \n Follow TechRadar on Google News<\/a> and add us as a preferred source<\/a> to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly half of British adults would eliminate generative AI entirely if they had the choice18-24-year-olds most likely to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/media\/img\/techradar_logo_v2.svg\"){kind=logo}
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