Americans are split on whether artificial intelligence (AI) will make life better or worse, according to an NBC News Decision Desk poll released Wednesday.
Asked about AI’s impact on “the life of you and your family” overall, 7 percent of respondents said lives will be “much better,” 37 percent said “somewhat better,” 26 percent said “somewhat worse,” 16 percent said “much worse,” and 13 percent said it will have “no effect.”
AI has rapidly transformed the tech world, turning chipmakers like Nvidia into a behemoth and stirring competition between giants including Alphabet, Meta and OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft.
Earlier this year, President Trump announced a joint effort to invest up to $500 billion in building the infrastructure necessary for AI development over his second term in the White House, involving SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle.
A survey from earlier this year found that a majority of Americans have used ChatGPT-like AI models. In the survey from Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center, 52 percent said they “use artificial intelligence (AI) large language models,” a category that includes OpenAI’s famous ChatGPT.
In the NBC News Decision Desk Poll, 14 percent of respondents said they used “AI tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Microsoft Copilot” very often, 30 percent said sometimes, and 26 percent said they never use the tools.
The NBC News Decision Desk Poll was taken from May 30 to June 10, featuring 19,410 people with 2.1 percentage point margin of error.
