New Gen Z graduates are fluent in AI and ready to join the workforce

Generative AI is making a big splash as it gets integrated into workplace tools like email providers, graphics editors, productivity tools and coding programs. Despite some leaders, including AI creators, warning about doomsday scenarios in which the tech takes over humanity, hundreds of thousands of Gen Z students -- those born between 1997 and 2012 -- have experimented with it, and in some cases, have even been encouraged by their schools to explore it. Now as new hires, Gen Z is bringing their AI chops to work, expediting more usage in the future. And young adults are more likely to use AI than their older counterparts at work, a recent Pew Research Center survey suggests.