In their own words, what do Americans say about artificial intelligence?
It will increase productivity
52 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-06-15
It has become too powerful too quickly and we are not equipped to manage it. We have also become increasingly Godless which will be reflected in the further development of AI and will result in a great deal of misuse and irresponsible development.
35 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly disagree
on 2024-04-11
I think AI can be used to make machines faster and have better response times. I dont support it if its going to be used for making robots or other devices to take away jobs from people.
26 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2025-02-26
In support of further development of AI because it can enhance productivity, solve complex problems, and improve Quality of life in various fields, from healthcare to education. However, development should be done responsibly, with proper safeguards to ensure ethical use and Address potential privacy, employment, and safety risks.
24 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2024-11-01
There are too many negatives with AI.
56 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat disagree
on 2024-03-21
AI is harmful to the environment due to its heavier use of resources to power its computer databases. One inquiry uses 16 oz of water.
27 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2024-10-19
I think it could have many beneficial uses, if handled correctly.
69 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-05-17
I think it has benefits but I still have concerns. I appreciate that it simplifies tasks for people at work and for small tasks. I worry about it taking jobs from people and relying on it wholly for many concerns.
41 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2025-10-08
I think that AI will have helpful uses for humanity. There is some panicking about negative aspects, but as long as we take steps to safeguard against those we should not ignore the potential positives. We can't just ignore a technology out of fear.
29 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-08-18
I think it just needs to be monitored more by anyone using it. It needs to be only used for beneficial things that help people in a good and legal ways.
49 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-04-11
I think it had advanced a lot of things at a faster pace and I believe people are also learning things at faster rates when they don't have the proper skills to study and research certain topics on their own. Especially younger people
33 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2026-04-12
Like any technology, I think AI could be used for nefarious purposes if used by people looking to do harm. I think it can also provide a lot of misinformation as well as the theft of art and original ideas.
41 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2025-11-06
Artificial Intelligence in the way it is being used today is harmful for communities and environments. Data centers that are consuming copious amounts of energy and water are placed in rural areas filled with ethnically minority groups and are affecting their livelihoods. These people aren't able to breathe or hear anything but these data centers running all the time.
24 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2026-06-21
I dont want it to take jobs. Its already gone too far.
24 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2025-12-19
AI is good for helping humanity but it needs to be regulated
30 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-05-19
We are just at the beginning of AI development and what it can achieve. I think that further development will show benefits to society as a whole.
39 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-06-06
I believe AI will cause meaningful benefits in increasing efficiency and democratizing information access.
56 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2026-03-19
Artificial Intelligence will take us to a level 1 energy-consuming civilization.
63 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2026-06-19
I think there are some use cases where it can be helpful especially for people with disabilities AI can help them be more independant. Right now I don't like using it professionally or personally too much because it's not 100% accurate and also the moral qualms about them kind of stealing other people's works to learn off of.
37 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-02-18
I feel like artificial intelligence is only making us more reliant on not doing things for ourselves
28 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat disagree
on 2026-01-15
AI will take our jobs and destroy humanity.
56 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly disagree
on 2025-08-08
I don't like that it is being shoehorned into everything right now. I don't think the tech is there yet for full commercial use.
38 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2026-03-25
I can see the benefits of AI in jobs. However, I'm worried about them fully replacing whole careers.
31 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-12-18
I think it can be very beneficial for human kind, but I think it can be more damaging. It can easily get out of control, and we get to the point where AI takes over human jobs, like manufacturing, healthcare and tech jobs. So while I support it, it should be maintained and restricted, which I don’t see happening
40 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat disagree
on 2024-11-13
i I have mixed feelings about AI because of security reasons. I would be leary of truthfullness.
60 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Neither agree nor disagree
on 2025-03-10
I believe overall that AI will become harmful to society due to the possibilities of job loss, bias and misinformation.
67 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat disagree
on 2026-06-24
I feel AI is great for businesse-like stuff or helping with data, but it’s definitely becoming too relied on in the arts. I hate how companies want to use AI for writing, art, and other creative works rather than hire actual people suitable to do those jobs. It comes off as cheap and is just stealing combinations of othee people’s hard work.
25 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat disagree
on 2025-06-28
While I do not support the current legal framework (or lack thereof) around AI development and implementation, and I do not support the continued development of LLM general AI at its current pace and with its current goals, I DO support the development of specialized AI tools that genuinely make achievements—say, in protein folding—accessible that were unthinkable before the development of the technology.
43 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2025-11-03
It can lead to breakthroughs in various fields and free up people's time for better pursuits.
33 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2024-03-07
I THINK AI COULD REALLY EXPAND WHAT HUMANITY IS CAPABLE OF AND POTENTIALLY HEAL AND SAVE PEOPLE
31 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2024-06-29
I like advancing technology, but AI needs to have some guardrails in place.
46 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-05-09
I only support development into menial tasks like washing dishes or doing laundry.
33 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2026-05-29
Well for starters, the amount of water being used by AI data centers is taking clean drinking water from those in need. We’re killing the planet even faster now. Secondly, it’s not only taking work from real artists but it’s creating dumber people AND horrifyingly real fake images that are used for things like making CP for fun (looking at Grok in particular). Overall just not a good time.
22 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Strongly disagree
on 2026-01-03
I would like to see the advancement of AI in the future. However, I do still have some concerns about how it can be utilized in the future and would want to ensure there are reasonable regulations surrounding it.
33 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-10-07
Artificial intelligence has the potential to better human life particularly in the hospitality, transport, and technological sectors. Hence the need to furtehr its development.
28 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2025-04-14
I do not like artificial intelligence because it could threaten jobs of humans. It also makes it easier to cheat on tests, essays, etc.
43 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat disagree
on 2024-12-17
Artificial intelligence show forth what our imagination can show even when our mindset does not see it
75 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-01-28
It seems to be a useful tool. The probability of it running amuck is exaggerated.
71 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-03-02
I think AI can be beneficial in automizing parts of society like traffic control, energy management, certain financial situations, but I worry that its advancement will cause the rich to get richer and businesses to not hire humans.
30 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-04-20
I support it but I also really want it regulated, I feel like things withit could get out of hand so very fast and really create a lot of damage in everyones lives.
57 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2025-09-12
I believe AI is not going away no matter how much people may want it to. It is beneficial to continue working further on artificial intelligence rather than letting it stagnate. Of course there should be things put in place to stop disgusting things from happening such as sexual acts made through ai and stuff similar.
28 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-10-11
AI can make many tasks easier, improve technology and help people work more efficiently.
34 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2026-05-07
Artificial intelligence help us do a lot, first the i the AI are developed more it will help us make things automatic and will help in producing more food .
32 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Strongly disagree
on 2025-06-15
I feel as though AI will have many benefits for research is a variety of important fields.
25 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-07-20
I somewhat support because AI can work so much faster than humans but at the cost of losing the human touch and also making us a little more lazier in the long term. The benefits of AI in development and doing the mindless and dull work and then letting humans do the work that matters to us and that we are better at focusing on.
38 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2025-07-29
I use AI for my business and it has greatly reduce time.
53 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-03-11
Even though I see the Benefits of AI, I still think the negative outweighs the positive. There seems to be no limit to where people are willing to use it and it opens the doors for a lot of criminal behaviors such as using it to impersonate someone for crimes or other bad things.
40 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat disagree
on 2025-01-03
I agree to some agree the statement because reliance to AI more does not lead to creativity and also it does not push people to greater heights because reliance on the AI leads to laziness.
28 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2025-04-17
Further development of artificial intelligence hinders creativity and also takes over the human labor in offices leaving so many people unemployed
53 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly disagree
on 2026-01-19
I don't like how we are currently use AI to create art and literature. If we were using it as a way to actually make our lives easier, then maybe I could get behind further development. But I just don't trust how we are using it and don't believe that AI companies really have the best interest of general American in mind.
23 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2025-03-03
I think it could be beneficial to further develop AI for human productivity. This shouldn't be our top priority though.
28 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-03-21
I feel like AI is more dangerous to the world than helpful
53 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Neither agree nor disagree
on 2025-11-05
I feel AI has some good to it but I do worry about the future of certain jobs and peoples loss of income. Kids or adults getting into conversations with AI vs real interactions.
54 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2026-01-14
I think we need a chance to see if ai can improve our lives. If we don't try we will never know. There are some bad uses for artificial intelligence. However, I think if we can figure out how to put in preventative measures it could be a success!
50 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2024-02-16
So is an uncontrollable technology that can evolve and create unforeseen problems
70 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly disagree
on 2025-02-18
It's taking up too much resources with minimum gain over the span of a year.
24 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly disagree
on 2026-03-04
Because its going to be programmed by sociopaths who hate other people. Its too dangerous to other and genocide people because you cant control it.
32 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2024-04-11
I disagree with its further development because I feel that our society will become fully dependent on it. Our species were originally hunter-gatherers and not meant to be sedentary. With this type of dependency, I feel that we will lose critical thinking skills, physical prowess, and creativity.
40 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2024-08-12
I believe it will make work easier for humans
29 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-06-22
I can see the benefit of A.I. but I do not care to use it
44 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Neither agree nor disagree
on 2025-05-30
I think artificial intelligence will bring technological advancement like we have never seen before.
27 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2024-02-22
I think AI will help tremendously with health overall, cures, diagnosis. AI will with industry production, defense industry real time answers.
59 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2026-01-15
AI is a very useful and helpful tool. It should be further developed and improved.
49 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2025-08-02
AI development is about a cash grab at this point, and does not seem to be very helpful when data centers are starting to mess with how water and air function in towns. It needs to be stopped, quite honestly.
40 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Strongly disagree
on 2026-01-11
It can lead to less menial work and more time spent doing meaningful things for everyone
31 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2024-04-30
Artificial intelligence save time, energy, make work easy and accurate
22 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-01-22
I think artificial intelligence does have the capacity to be very useful but I'm skeptical that the businesses developing them will actually do much besides line their own pockets. I don't trust the technology will be used for the benefit of the world. It will probably just be used to put people out of a job.
43 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Neither agree nor disagree
on 2024-11-29
I feel like it's moving too fast and needs to be regulated for dangerous or false content.
64 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2025-07-28
own choice of decisions
21 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-11-27
AI is promising but has a long way to go - the applications for science and medicine could be great, though.
50 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-05-18
Artificial intelligence does really help a lot of people and I think that it is extremely beneficial, but I don’t think we need hyperrealistic robots or things that could take people’s actual jobs and artificial intelligence harms the planet, but I think it would be good if we could find ways to further develop artificial intelligence while not harming the planet
20 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-05-21
It is my opinion that artificial intelligence (AI) is a crutch. Even though I have Autism, I was able to get a college education without using AI. People need to learn to think for themselves.
66 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2026-03-06
I believe that AI will significantly improve the quality of life, in terms of accelerating the medical technology. As far as most people’s fear of “AI stealing our jobs”, AI will also create even more jobs. AI will also bring positive impact on childcare and elderly care, to ease up the burden.
51 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2024-08-19
I think overall it is a great thing to have in order to get work done more efficiently, get medical help that sometimes doctors don't know. I think it's scary how quickly it's evolving and I worry about how it will hurt job industry, but I also see so many great benefits from it. I think as it grows it will get better at making less errors as well.
39 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2026-05-08
Artificial intelligence can do so much good for the human race in the area of medicine. I believe that would be a great area to keep developing it..
62 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2024-06-03
It has benefits, it just needs more study and more regulation.
41 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2026-04-30
I support the development up to a point I do think there is a fine line that where walking where this has the potential to become so sentient being that we no longer have control of
31 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-05-28
I think AI is the future. to deny it is to live in the past. esp in science things are becoming so complex we need something to help speed up scientific exploration and comprehension.
80 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2026-03-29
I agree, but I think we should develop AI with a fair bit of caution. I think ultimately AI can can enhance society and make many jobs more efficient. However, I think it's important we place ourselves, and make sure we consider the implications it may have on future generations .
44 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-06-01
I am just not a big fan of a technocratic state filled with misinformation and humanoid robots enforcing things.
32 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2025-06-11
AI is helpful and makes people more efficient. It should be focused on the human element instead of replacing.
41 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2026-04-10
I believe AI is an emerging technology that will go a long way to help humans in various sectors such as health, engineering and global economics if utilized efficiently. It would also ease the stress on humans to perform various tasks.
56 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2024-08-03
Although, I think advanced technology is important and amazing, I feel safety concerns towards humans worry me.
44 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Neither agree nor disagree
on 2024-10-26
I believe in the long term AI will be harmful.
57 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat disagree
on 2025-09-09
Current AI systems have been trained poorly on stolen data. I do not trust the companies creating and training these AI systems to do it in an ethical, mindful, or honest manner.
30 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Disagree
on 2024-04-04
I think that AI has great potential, but that much more development work is going to be needed to realize that.
61 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-06-05
I think that AI has a lot of possibilities that can stem from it. I am hoping it will solve some problems including things such as cures for cancer. I enjoy using it when I am writing emails because they come out more concise and overall better. I do however, believe there should be limitations on it.
41 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2025-04-14
I think any advancements in technology are positive. AI, as long as there are certain regulations enforced regarding its use and integrity, AI is very helpful in many applications.
45 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2024-04-26
While I do not think AI will completely take over tons of jobs as many companies think; I do however believe AI can be useful in ASSISTING human beings. Not replacing independent thought completely. I think it's dangerous for us to solely rely on AI for decision making.
50 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-01-04
AI is not new and has been something that has been worked on for decades. Progress will continue to happen so might as well lean in now than get left behind by others.
45 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2026-05-08
Not in chat bot form or home use form but in medicine, other fields where lives can ACTUALLY be improved.
29 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2025-11-16
I support the development of AI because it could better humanity and science.
27 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2026-05-04
it helps people save time as it can automate task.
35 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Strongly agree
on 2024-05-12
I support further development of AI for a few reasons. One reason is I think its amazing and want to see where it goes, I also use ai quite a bit for my hobbies.
59 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Agree
on 2024-04-04
I believe we should take a vantage of all that AI can do for us, but I am skeptical of what it’s going to do to the workforce and if anyone will even care if it puts people out of work
51 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2025-12-22
I recognize the benefits of using AI but I fear it taking away our intellect, problem solving skills, and intuition.
35 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Neither agree nor disagree
on 2025-01-11
I think overall it will improve lives and make higher complicated tasks much more efficient. It will greatly increase quality of life overall, and could be used to create more breakthroughs in the future.
43 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2026-03-25
I feel they can unlock answers to problems that we have now.
41 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Somewhat agree
on 2024-09-12
I neither agree nor disagree with continuing with continuation of AI because it is a complex technology with both significant benefits. Therefore, I remain neutral while observing its long-term effects.
56 year old Female respondent Support further AI development?Neither agree nor disagree
on 2025-12-19
I believe AI development should be paused either temporarily or permanently. AI is drastically reducing humans thinking, although AI makes every task easier but i believe it fair to pause further development
42 year old Male respondent Support further AI development?Neither agree nor disagree
on 2025-01-24
Methods, briefly
Randomly selected American adults were asked how much they agreed with the statement: I support further development of artificial intelligence. Directly after, respondents were invited to Write 1 to 3 sentences explaining why. The written response was marked "(optional)".
6764 out of 9718 chose to write something. 100 randomly selected responses are presented here. Data collection began 2024-02-16. Last updated on .