44% of roughly 2,000 U.S. adults surveyed view AI favorably, yielding a net favorability of 16% versus 28% negative.
Favorability varies sharply by usage, age, income, gender and politics—weekly users are 74% positive, men 28% net, conservatives 31% net.
Top positive reasons are time‑saving and information access (53% each); main concerns are fraud/harm (51%) and misinformation (45%).
22% use AI daily for personal tasks; 29% of employed use AI at work, with white‑collar adoption at 39% versus 22% for blue‑collar.