{"id":660076,"date":"2026-08-30T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660076"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:45:00","slug":"ai-skepticism-outweighs-excitement-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660076","title":{"rendered":"AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement In The US<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Despite the tech industry\u2019s conviction that the rise of AI is an inflection point that will change the course of humanity, <strong>many humans remain skeptical whether the new direction we\u2019re headed in is the right one. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/35887\/attitudes-towards-ai\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Felix Richter reports below,<\/a> the pace at which AI seems to be taking over parts of our lives, whether we like it or not, is especially worrisome to many.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/global-consumer-survey\/tool\/72\/pls_usa_202600\/?index=0&amp;absolute=1&amp;population=1&amp;missing=0&amp;rows%5B0%5D=ai_typology&amp;tgeditor=0\">Statista Consumer Insights<\/a>\u00a0survey, 31 percent of U.S. respondents said that they were worried about the speed at which AI is developing and <strong>25 percent of respondents claimed to be avoiding AI wherever they can.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18 percent said they used AI but felt bad about it and another 28 percent simply don\u2019t believe in the hype,<\/strong> saying they weren\u2019t convinced that AI is as good as people say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/35887\/attitudes-towards-ai\/\" title=\"Infographic: AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement in the U.S. | Statista\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Infographic: AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement in the U.S. | Statista\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/35887.jpeg\" width=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the spectrum, 28 percent of respondents said they were excited about AI, 19 percent said they liked to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/12261\/artificial-intelligence-in-us-e-commerce\/\">use AI for shopping<\/a>\u00a0and 15 percent described themselves as early adopters \u2013 always keen to try the latest AI features first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line is that Americans are neither all in on AI nor are they fully against it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people are mixing their excitement with a dose of skepticism, which is probably a good way of looking at a potentially life-altering technological shift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 08\/29\/2026 &#8211; 22:45<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/35887.jpeg\" title=\"AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement In The US\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement In The US Despite the tech industry\u2019s conviction that the rise of AI is an inflection point that will change the course of humanity, many humans remain skeptical whether the new direction we\u2019re headed in is the right one. As Statista&#8217;s Felix Richter reports below, the pace at which AI seems&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660076\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement In The US<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}