[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-gallup-poll-finds-global-ai-optimism-despite-low-usage":10,"sections":40},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":35,"feedback":39,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":39,"total_tokens":39},7486,"gallup-poll-finds-global-ai-optimism-despite-low-usage","Gallup Poll Finds Global AI Optimism Despite Low Usage","A new Gallup survey finds most people worldwide feel positive about AI even though most have never used it, while trust in its accuracy remains low.","Most of the world feels good about AI - even though most of the world hasn't touched it.\n\nA new Gallup-Microsoft survey covered the first 37 countries to finish fieldwork this year, out of an eventual 140-country study published Sept. 23. Positive feelings about AI outweighed negative ones in 34 of those 37 countries; only the United States, Egypt, and Palestine tipped negative. Curiosity topped the list of reactions at a median of 64 percent, while worry led the negative responses at 32 percent. Asked whether AI would mostly help or harm their country, 29 countries leaned toward help - led by China at 93 percent, with the U.S. near the bottom at 36 percent, just above Egypt and Bangladesh.\n\nThe gap between feeling and doing is the real story. In Nigeria, 68 percent of AI-aware adults expect the technology to help their country, though only 20 percent have actually used it. Trust in AI's accuracy is thin everywhere - a median of just 36 percent trust it completely or a lot - but it climbs with exposure: 45 percent of daily U.S. users trust it, versus 8 percent of people who've never used it. Gallup itself says it can't tell whether trust drives use or the other way around. Worry, meanwhile, ran highest in wealthy countries with heavy AI exposure: 74 percent of AI-aware Americans reported feeling worried, the most of any country surveyed, with the Netherlands and Canada close behind - though even there, daily users worried less than occasional or non-users.\n\nEnthusiasm this widespread and this untested is easy to poll and hard to verify.","[\"ai\",\"public-opinion\",\"gallup\",\"surveys\"]","2026-09-23T17:51:31.000Z","2026-09-23T18:52:42.586Z","2026-09-23T18:52:46.550Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Cut or substantiate the closing sentence claiming top AI-investing countries are the most worried and least trusting — that causal\u002Fcomparative link isn't in the source material and conflates 'wealthy nations with high worry' (which the source does support) with 'AI investment leaders' (which it doesn't).","resolved","ai",[30,32,33,34],"public-opinion","gallup","surveys",[36],{"name":37,"url":38},"Mashable","https:\u002F\u002Fmashable.com\u002Ftech\u002Fgallup-poll-reveals-widespread-global-ai-optimism",0,{"sections":41},[42,46,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101,106],{"name":43,"slug":30,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"AI",4363,"2026-09-23T23:03:26.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Security","security",718,"2026-09-23T20:24:22.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Policy","policy",380,"2026-09-23T22:53:43.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Deals","deals",220,"2026-09-23T22:00:00.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Hardware","hardware",172,"2026-09-23T20:44:59.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Science","science",134,"2026-09-23T09:00:00.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",111,"2026-09-23T17:04:48.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Software","software",85,"2026-09-23T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",79,"2026-09-22T22:21:13.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Startups","startups",66,"2026-09-23T17:28:38.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Gaming","gaming",45,"2026-09-22T15:35:06.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"General","general",43,"2026-09-21T23:48:56.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Reviews","reviews",27,"2026-09-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]