Pew Research: “As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) increases rapidly, most people across 25 countries surveyed say they have heard or read at least a little about the technology.
And on balance, people are more concerned than excited about its growing presence in daily life.
A median of 34% of adults across these countries have heard or read a lot about AI, while 47% have heard a little and 14% say they’ve heard nothing at all, according to a spring 2025 Pew Research Center survey.
But many are worried about AI’s effects on daily life. A median of 34% of adults say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI, while 42% are equally concerned and excited. A median of 16% are more excited than concerned…
Concerns about AI are especially common in the United States, Italy, Australia, Brazil and Greece, where about half of adults say they are more concerned than excited. But as few as 16% in South Korea are mainly concerned about the prospect of AI in their lives.
In fact, in many countries surveyed, a larger share of people are equally excited and concerned about the growing use of AI. In no country surveyed do more than three-in-ten adults say they are mainly excited.
The survey also finds a strong correlation between a country’s income – as measured by gross domestic product per capita – and awareness of AI. People in higher-income nations tend to have heard more about AI than those in less wealthy economies. For example, around half of adults in the comparatively wealthy countries of Japan, Germany, France and the U.S. have heard a lot about AI, but only 14% in India and 12% in Kenya say the same.
Trust in government to regulate AI
The survey also asked whether people trust their own country, the European Union, the U.S. and China to regulate the use of AI effectively.
Most people trust their own country to regulate AI. This includes 89% of adults in India, 74% in Indonesia and 72% in Israel. At the other end of the spectrum, only 22% of Greeks trust their country to regulate AI effectively.
Americans are almost evenly divided between trust in their country to regulate AI (44%) and distrust (47%)…(More)”.
