A McGill University study on young people aged 17 to 23 and their relationship with AI stopped Mohit Rajhans cold. He says the adults in the room have been having the wrong conversation.

The study is not showing a generation eager to take AI as far as it can go. Mohit Rajhans says what is coming through is ambivalence rooted in distrust. Young people watched social media companies design addictive platforms and then watched those same companies build AI. The pattern is not lost on them.

Mohit Rajhans says the fix is not a ban. It is a shift toward AI as a form of media literacy, something young people need to understand at the operating system level before they enter a workforce where it is already everywhere, whether anyone calls it AI or not.

Topics: AI youth trust, McGill AI study, digital literacy Canada, AI ambivalence, generational technology

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Originally aired on2026-05-01