Millennials get the most AI hype, but no study actually separates how much they trust it from other generations.

This explores whether trust in AI differs by generation, and where millennials fall. Start with a gap: none of these sources breaks results out for millennials. In 2026, millennials are roughly 30 to 45. The closest age data splits people at 'under 30' or 'under 35', which puts Gen Z with the youngest millennials. So the corpus can't tell you exactly where millennials stand. It can show you an age pattern that cuts against what most people would expect.

That pattern: young adults use AI the most but distrust it the most. Pew's 2026 survey found that adults under 30 are the heaviest chatbot users and also the most likely to expect AI to harm them personally and to harm society. Older adults, who use it less, stay more optimistic Why do young adults use chatbots most yet trust them least?. The Reuters Institute found the same split for news. Chatbot news use is concentrated among under-35s, yet only 20% of people trust chatbot answers, compared with 37% for news in general, and 42% of users click through to check the original source Why do AI chatbots gain news users but lose their trust?. For younger people, heavy use and trust don't go together. Many seem to use AI and double-check it at the same time.

That cuts against a common assumption, which is that trust leads to use. Across the whole population, that assumption mostly holds. Chatbot users are far more likely to trust news from chatbots than non-users are (44% vs 17%) Does trust in AI chatbots drive news-seeking behavior?. KPMG's 47-country survey found trust is the strongest predictor of whether people accept AI, even as trust fell from 63% to 56% between 2022 and 2024 Why does AI trust keep falling even though it matters most?. Young adults are the exception. They have adopted AI without fully trusting it, which may come from habit or workplace pressure rather than confidence.

Age may also matter less than what you're trusting AI to do. People who trust AI to give advice often won't let it act for them: only 29% would give an AI agent access to their bank account How willing are people to let AI control their finances?. A small study of students found that trust dropped sharply on tasks that couldn't be undone and that other people would see, like sending an email, even when the work itself was fine What makes people distrust AI agents they delegate to?. Culture can split people more than age does. Indian writers accepted more AI suggestions than American writers, a gap the authors trace to different cultural attitudes toward technology Is higher AI use by Indian writers a confound to control?. One more caution: what people say about trust and how they behave don't always match. Participants couldn't tell AI medical advice from doctors' advice and trusted inaccurate AI answers as much as real ones Can people tell AI medical advice from doctors' responses?.

The takeaway: for adults up to their early 30s, 'trust' and 'use' have come apart, so the question of how much a generation trusts AI may matter less than how carefully it checks AI. If you want millennials specifically, this collection would need surveys that report results for 30 to 45-year-olds, and it doesn't have them yet.