Generation Beta will make up the new generation of children born between the years 2025 and 2039 – here’s what researchers predict for them
As the world welcomes the new year in 2025, babies born this year will also usher in a new generation.
Generation Beta is the term that will be given to anyone born between 2025 and 2039 and are considered the first generation to be born in the world of Artificial Intelligence. This marks the end of Generation Alpha, who were born between 2010 and 2024.
The two generations were named after the first two letters of the Greek alphabet and coined by the Australian-based research firm, McCrindle. “We named them Alpha and Beta to signify not just new generations, but the first generations that will be shaped by an entirely different world,” their website stated.
“That is why we moved to the Greek alphabet, to signify how these different generations will be raised in a new world of technological integration,” they added.
Generation Beta are the first to grow up with artificial intelligence (
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Before Generation Alpha was Generation Z, who were born between 1995-2012; Millennials, born between 1980 and 1994; and before them were Generation X who were born from 1965 to 1979.
According to McCrindle, they project that Generation Beta will be 16 percent of the world’s population by 2035. Generation Beta will be born to younger millennials (ages 31 to 45 in the year 2025) and older Gen Z (ages 16 to 30 in the year 2025).
A report from Prudential shows that people have hope for the latest generation. Out of those surveyed, half of them think that cancer will be cured by someone of this new generation.
Other statistics show that 68% of those asked think Generation Beta will have more pets than kids and 86% say that the nuclear family won’t be the most common family structure for them.
A demographer, Michael Haan, who teaches at Western University told CBC that Artificial Intelligence is going to influence this new generation. “Generation Beta is going to have AI baked right into their anatomy of how they handle, deal with and solve problems,” he said.
“AI is the wild west,” he continued, “It’s almost impossible, at this point, for us to predict where AI will go next and how we can set up the safeguards to ensure that we don’t do something catastrophic to ourselves.”
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