US survey: 55% never use AI, 54% expect it to make society worse
NinaDSchick · x · 2026-11-05
Nina Schick summarizes the HAPI US Report 2026: 55% of Americans never use AI, only 24% use it weekly and just 5% pay for a subscription. Yet 48% view AI negatively and 54% expect it to make society worse over the next decade; only 5% expect ordinary people to benefit more than large companies. Familiarity shifts sentiment — 56% of weekly users view AI positively vs 63% of non-users negative — but not anxiety: 68% of daily AI users in paid work fear job displacement, vs 36% of workers who never use it. Distrust may become the decisive constraint on the multi-trillion-dollar AI infrastructure build-out.
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