Politico poll: more people say AI helped than hurt them in every country surveyed
neil_chilson · x · 2026-09-23
A new Politico cross-country AI poll reveals a classic techno-panic pattern: plenty of fear about the future, little felt harm today.
- In every country surveyed, more respondents say AI has helped them than hurt them
- Roughly half say AI has made no difference to their lives at all
- Neil Chilson of the Abundance Institute: "few harms today, plenty of fear about tomorrow" — a familiar pattern for new technologies
The takeaway: AI is a technology everyone hears scary stories about but most people aren't really using yet.
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