AI-related issues concerns among U.S. adults 2023

According to a survey conducted in February 2023, 74 percent of the adults in the United States mentioned concerns about their data privacy in regards to artificial intelligence (AI). Overall, worries about AI-powered searched engines were very frequent among respondents, as 68 percent were concerned about misinformation and included in results from these tools while more than 63 percent of those expressed concerns about the accuracy of AI-generated results. Meanwhile, more than half of adults in the country were interested in AI-powered online search among other AI-related products.

Share of adults in the United States who were concerned about issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) as of February 2023

Characteristic	Share of respondents
My personal data privacy	74%
Use by foregin powers against U.S. interests	70%
Spread of misinformation	70%
Misinformation included in results from search engines that use AI	68%
The creation of deepfakes	68%
Job loss across industries	66%
Possibility that AI applications could learn to function independently from humans	64%
Child access to AI	64%
Accuracy of results in search engines that use AI	63%
Transparency of how AI models are trained and developed in search engines that use AI	63%
Bias or discrimination	63%
Impact on electoral integrity or democracy generally	63%
Lack of parent controls	63%
AI's encouragement of harmful behavior	63%
Bias in search results from search engines that use AI	62%
Targeted advertisements in search engines that use AI	60%
Commercial advertising influence on results from search engines that use AI	59%
The relevancy of results from search engines that use AI	58%
Job loss in my industry	49%