🙌 Trust in AI Companies is Falling, Stanford Researchers Have Found
According to Stanford researchers, the world is growing cautiously optimistic about AI every year. Still, public trust in AI companies is falling.
For the new 2025 AI Index report, researchers surveyed more than 24,000 people from 32 countries. It's one of the largest and most authoritative studies on the topic.
Highlights from the report:
⚫️ A large majority believe AI-powered products and services offer more benefits than drawbacks in countries like China (where 83% welcome AI adoption), Indonesia (80%), Thailand (77%), and Mexico (70%). However, less than half share this view in Australia (44%), Canada (40%), the US (39%), and the Netherlands (36%).
⚫️ Even so, optimism about AI is growing, especially in Europe. In Germany and France, 10% have changed their opinion of AI for the better since 2022, and in the US, — 4%.
⚫️ At the same time, people are becoming disillusioned with AI leaders. Globally, confidence in AI companies' ability to protect personal data has fallen from 50% to 47% within a year.
⚫️ Globally, 66% believe AI will significantly change their lives in three to five years. However, only 55% see AI as doing more good than harm (52% thought so in 2022).
⚫️ Just over half of those surveyed believe AI helps save time and improves the quality of entertainment. Only one in three thinks AI will improve healthcare, the national economy, and working conditions.
⚫️ Only 36% of respondents expect AI to replace their jobs in five years. Still, 60% agree that AI will change their profession in one way or another.
⚫️ Generational differences are obvious. While nearly two-thirds of Generation Z anticipate AI to significantly impact their jobs, fewer than half of Baby Boomers share this belief.
How do you think AI will affect your job?
🔥— I don't think it will affect
👍 — it might change my job, but it won't take it away
👾 — perhaps AI will replace me...
