The Pew Research Center has published fresh data on how residents of the United States feel about the spread of artificial intelligence in everyday life. The survey was conducted from June 22 to June 28 of this year and showed a noticeable change in public sentiment. According to the study results, 52 percent of American adults feel more concern than excitement about the development of technology. In 2021, when the center first asked this question, only 37 percent of respondents gave a similar answer.

The share of those who are rather optimistic has almost halved over the past five years. In the current survey, only nine percent of respondents said that artificial intelligence arouses more enthusiasm than concern in them, whereas in 2021, that figure was eighteen percent – that is, almost every fifth resident of the country. Another thirty‑seven percent of Americans admitted that they have an ambivalent attitude towards the technology and experience both concern and interest to roughly the same extent. The labour market remains the main source of anxiety. Seventy‑one percent of respondents are confident that in the next twenty years, artificial intelligence will lead to a significant reduction in human jobs. Two years ago, the same question yielded a figure of sixty‑four percent, which indicates a noticeable increase in pessimistic expectations. The opposite scenario seems virtually impossible to Americans: only five percent of survey participants believe that automation will ultimately create more jobs than it destroys.

An interesting detail of the study is that age has ceased to be a significant factor in shaping attitudes towards the technology. Concerns about job loss are now recorded in all demographic groups in roughly the same way, whereas previously, young people and the older generation had noticeably different assessments. At the same time, young respondents have their own set of complaints about the technology. Previous studies show that younger people generally view artificial intelligence with skepticism and associate it with a decline in creative abilities and skills in face‑to‑face communication. In a separate Pew survey conducted in September 2025, 61% of young adults said that AI could harm their ability to think creatively, and another 43% believed that the technology would make it harder for them to solve everyday tasks and problems. The trend over five years is forming a stable pattern: as chatbots, image generators, and AI assistants become increasingly integrated into workflows and consumer services, the share of skeptics is steadily growing, while the group of enthusiasts continues to shrink.