Pew Survey: Americans Worried About AI's Impact on Creativity and Relationships, But Open to Its Use in Medicine and Weather
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Brian Kennedy, Eileen Yam, Emma Kikuchi, Isabelle Pula, Javier Fuentes
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Summary
A Pew Research Center survey of 5,023 U.S. adults conducted in June 2025 reveals that Americans are broadly worried about the increasing use of AI in daily life, particularly regarding its negative impact on human creativity, critical thinking, and personal relationships. However, the public is more open to AI applications in data-heavy, specialized tasks such as weather forecasting and medicine. The study highlights a nuanced public sentiment: general anxiety about AI's societal effects coexists with conditional acceptance of its use in specific, practical domains.
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· 3 pulledAmericans are worried about using AI more in daily life, seeing harm to human creativity and relationships.
But they're open to AI use in weather forecasting, medicine and other data-heavy tasks.
This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection.
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