Eurostat finds 64% of EU youth used generative AI tools in 2025

Eurostat’s data confirms what many suspected anecdotally: for Europe’s under‑25s, generative AI is already a normal part of daily life, not a niche experiment. Nearly two‑thirds of young people are using these tools, and a very large share are doing so for formal education. That has deep implications for how quickly AI‑mediated cognition becomes the default baseline in universities and early careers. In the context of the AGI race, this means that by the time today’s frontier models are superseded, an entire cohort of workers and voters will have grown up assuming constant access to capable assistants.

Strategically, this adoption pattern will push both European regulators and companies into a tighter feedback loop: clamp too hard on AI in the name of safety or copyright, and you risk alienating a generation that sees these tools as basic digital infrastructure; move too slowly on guardrails, and you risk amplifying misinformation, cheating and skill atrophy. For labs, the numbers validate spending on education‑oriented products and on alignments that can handle the messy, adversarial environment of classrooms and group work at scale.