55% of Americans Think AI Will Make Society Worse, First HAPI Poll Finds
NinaDSchick · x · 2026-08-21
Nina Schick released the first edition of HAPI (Human AI Perception Index), a comprehensive study on US attitudes toward AI:
- A clear majority (55%) believe AI will make society worse over the next ten years — the abundance narrative has not landed.
- 48% view AI negatively, with 29% "very negatively"; negative views are nearly double positive ones, and 28% are undecided.
- AI penetration is low: despite Anthropic's $70bn annualized run rate (up from $10bn last year), only 10% of Americans use AI daily and 55% don't use it at all — frontier AI discourse lives in a tiny bubble.
The full report with granular analysis drops next week.
Related event: First HAPI Poll: Americans Deeply Distrust AI Developers(11 posts)→
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