Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
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#2The pushback I see everywhere outside of tech suggests the tech industry vastly overestimated the interest. The tech industry doesn't speak for the entire planet as much as it likes to think it does.
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#3This number will go up in maybe ... 10 years?
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#4> Pew writes that 44 percent of U.S. adults now say they use OpenAI’s chatbot, a figure that’s more than doubled since 2023.
> The next most popular chatbot is Gemini (24 percent), followed by Copilot (17 percent) and MetaAI (14 percent), with Grok (8 percent), Claude (6 percent) and Character.ai (3 percent) lagging behind.
Claude in 6th place, behind Gemini and Copilot and MetaAI and Grok?
No wonder the general public still think AI is junk.
Update: here's the underlying report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-an...
The question there was "% of U.S. adults who say they ever use the following AI chatbots", so it's not a measure of overall usage, just exposure. Not surprising Gemini and Grok and MetaAI rank higher then.
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#5AI is capitalism gone wild.
50% of the S&P 500 valuation is now directly related to AI as are 40% of new layoffs.
A quote often attributed to Stalin/Lenin/Marx is something like, "Capitalists will sell the rope to be used to hang them".
AI is taking this even further. Corps are effectively borrowing tons of money in order to build the rope to hang the middle class --- to be followed by hanging themselves.
The idea that you can lay off the middle class and business will continue as usual is a capitalistic fantasy. Without jobs, people can't afford to buy products built with AI.
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#6Half of Americans voters elected Trump. Most people are idiots, I wouldn’t use that as a gauge yet.
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Re: Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
#8AI is capitalism gone wild. 50% of the S&P 500 valuation is now directly related to AI as are 40% of new layoffs. A quote often attributed to Stalin/Lenin/Marx is something like, "Capitalists will sell the rope to be used to hang them". AI is taking this even further. Corps are effectively borrowing tons of money in order to build the rope to hang the middle class --- to be followed by hanging themselves. The idea th…
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#9People don’t even know what it is, they think it’s chat bots. Useless statistic.
In the meantime, AI has given scientists 20 years of incredible tools, from which we now reap the fruits in our daily lives
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#10Because the writing is on the wall already. Who hasn't been annoyed with "AI customer service", we already read about AI in the military, then you have the envisioned huge loss of jobs.
People generally seem to like using it as a chatbot, or answer questions, on their own terms. But anywhere it's been forced against the user asking for it has been a disaster.