Anthropic surveys 81,000 people in 159 countries about their thoughts on AI

Most respondents hail AI for the learning experience, but some worry about agency and thinking less. (Picture: Anthropic)
Capturing a wide sentiment across the world, the survey also breaks down what people expect, and their fears and hopes on AI.

— For the first time, AI has enabled us to collect rich, open-ended interviews at extraordinary scale, Anthropic writes. — We believe this is the largest and most multilingual quantitative survey ever conducted.

It finds that the USA is most worried about the future with AI, while Brazil, India and most of Southeast Asia are generally positive toward it.

For what people expect and hope for from AI, the results are varied, but the top answer is «Professional excellence» (18.8%), «Personal transformation» 13.7%, and «Life management» at 13.5%.

The responses on whether AI actually delivered on any of those aspirations falls short, though — with 32% responding that it helped on productivity and 28.9%, in second place, saying that «AI hasn’t delivered.»

The survey found that, globally, 67% of respondents have a positive view of AI.

Read the full survey on Anthropic.