Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it

if ai stans want to build trust in AI, they should have embraced sensible regulation instead of spending millions to elect pols unwilling to lift a single finger.

congrats, you have regulatory captured the entire industry and the U.S. government. everybody hates you because they can see money leaving their community to inflate the stock portfolio of some asshole on a yacht.

This feels like fake news, like the people asked leading questions. going by what I actually see, I see regular people using ai constantly at coffee shops and cafes all over the world. Non tech friends tell me all the things they are doing with ai from various learning things to planning parties to organizing meetings, designing business plans, etc

I see no evidence American’s don’t trust AI so I suspect loaded questions

Worth noting: article posted Apr 8, 2025

Turns out media fear mongering for clicks works

Now if they could just vote for politicians and a political party that will do something about it…we might get somewhere.

I don't think they'd hate AI so much if they didn't see it as being controlled by the same people (and types of people) who made Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, Netflix, Google, etc. all go downhill over the last decade and suck.

And yet all of them use it...

> Most Americans

They asked 174.6 million people?