As artificial intelligence tools continue to evolve rapidly, so do Americans’ feelings about AI. YouGov polls have periodically asked Americans about their concerns related to AI. The most recent polling finds that compared to March 2025, an increased share of Americans are concerned about AI causing the end of the human race. Additionally, more now believe AI’s impact on society will be negative than did in March, and slightly higher shares say they are very concerned about particular potential impacts of AI. However, the share of Americans who believe AI will cut the number of available jobs in their industry has fallen during the same time period.
The share of Americans who are very or somewhat concerned about AI causing the end of the human race on earth has increased since March, from 37% to 43%. In June, 16% say they are very concerned about this and 27% are somewhat concerned.
The share of Americans who believe that the effects of artificial intelligence on society will be negative has steadily increased, from 34% in December 2024 to 40% in March 2025 to 41% in April and to 47% in June.
Only 6% of Americans believe AI’s impact will be very positive, and 20% believe it will be somewhat positive. 16% say the impact will be neither positive nor negative.
Among people who use AI tools at least weekly — a group that makes up about one-third (32%) of Americans — 51% think it will have a positive impact on society and 27% think it will have a negative impact.
Since March, there have also been increases in the shares of Americans who are very concerned about AI resulting in an increase in human dependency on technology (from 45% in March to 50% now), diminishment of human creativity and drive (from 44% to 49%), the spread of misleading video and audio deepfakes (from 58% to 63%), and a decrease of face-to-face social interactions (from 41% to 46%).
Distrust around AI’s ability to provide accurate information is growing. In March, 43% said they didn’t trust AI much or at all to do this; now, 50% say the same.
67% don’t trust AI much or at all to make ethical decisions and 57% have the same partial or total lack of trust in AI’s ability to make unbiased decisions.
39% of Americans believe that AI will decrease the average job satisfaction of American workers; 15% think it will increase it. Americans are much more likely to think that AI will increase productivity (27%), though slightly more (32%) think it will decrease productivity.
35% of American workers say they are concerned about the possibility of AI resulting in their losing their job or having their hours reduced. This number has remained steady: 34% felt this in August 2024, 35% did in March 2024, and 35% did in July 2023.
There has been a shift in how American workers are thinking about AI’s effect on employment in their industry. In August 2024, 48% of employed Americans thought AI would decrease the number of available jobs in their industry. Now, only 31% say this.
How are Americans using AI? 48% of Americans say they’ve used it to look up the answer to a question. Other common use cases include getting clarification on complex topics (31% have used it for this purpose), amusing yourself (31%), getting step-by-step instructions (30%), and translating text into another language (29%).
Men are more likely than women to have used AI for many purposes. Among the largest gaps: 38% of men and 24% of women have used AI to amuse themselves. 19% of men and 7% of women have used it to assist in coding. 31% of men and 20% of women have used it to draft or proofread written content.
Related:
- Americans are increasingly skeptical about AI’s effects
- Do Americans think AI will have a positive or negative impact on society?
- About half of working Americans believe AI will decrease the number of jobs available in their industry
See the results for this YouGov survey
— Carl Bialik and Taylor Orth contributed to this article
Methodology: This article includes results from an online survey conducted June 27 - 30, 2025 among 1,112 U.S. adult citizens. Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of adult U.S. citizens. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2024 presidential vote, 2020 election turnout and presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status. 2024 presidential vote, at time of weighting, was estimated to be 48% Harris and 50% Trump. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Baseline party identification is the respondent’s most recent answer given around November 8, 2024, and is weighted to the estimated distribution at that time (31% Democratic, 32% Republican). The margin of error for the overall sample is approximately 4%.
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