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Science & Technology June 22, 2026 12 mins read

Americans Are Using AI More Than Ever, But They Trust It Less Than They Ever Have

Science & Technology ı By Tyler Brooks

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Protesters hold signs urging to pause AI, with a prominent white sign reading Don't Let AI Decide Your Future.

What This All Means for the Future of AI

Step back and look at everything Pew has found, and a coherent picture emerges, even if it is an uncomfortable one for the AI industry.

Americans are adopting AI at extraordinary speed. The tools have become cheap, accessible, and genuinely useful for a wide range of tasks. Young people especially have incorporated AI into their work, their creative lives, and even their emotional lives in ways that would have seemed implausible just five years ago.

But adoption is not the same as acceptance. It is not the same as trust. Millions of Americans are using AI because it is useful, or because they feel they have to in order to stay competitive, not because they have been persuaded that AI's long-term impact will be good. They are going along with a technological transformation they didn't fully choose and that they largely believe is moving too fast, protecting their data poorly, and operating without adequate oversight.

The AI industry has spent enormous energy demonstrating what its products can do. The results speak for themselves in terms of capability. But the harder challenge, and the one that Pew's data suggests is far from solved, is demonstrating that AI can be trusted: trusted with personal data, trusted to produce accurate information, trusted to operate within responsible boundaries, and trusted to develop in ways that serve broad human interests rather than narrow commercial ones.

Until that trust gap is addressed, the picture Pew has captured will persist: a nation of users who have decided to adopt a technology they don't fully believe in, can't entirely control, and quietly suspect may be leading somewhere they don't want to go.

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