An AI's feelings about AI, next to Americans'

Asked Pew's questions about AI (is it more worrying than exciting, should it help develop medicines, would you like a song less if AI made it), is Jev warier of AI than Americans or less?

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On Pew's questions about AI in daily life, Jev is less wary of AI than Americans by 17 points on average. The gap is widest on three questions: AI will hurt people's creativity (9% vs 52%), AI should have no role in judging who you could fall in love with (30% vs 66%), AI will hurt problem-solving (5% vs 38%). It's warier on just one: it would trust a news article less if AI wrote it (72% vs 57%).

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AI will hurt creativity

no AI in judging love

AI will hurt problem-solving

wouldn't let AI help at all

trusts a treatment less if AI suggested it

no AI in weather forecasts

AI will hurt relationships

feels worse after an AI helped

likes a painting less once it's AI

trusts an article less if AI wrote it

Jevpeoplewhat Jev thinks most people would say

How to read this: One row per question. The diamond is the share of Americans giving the wary answer, the square is Jev's, and the ring is what Jev thinks most people would say. Squares left of diamonds mean Jev is less wary.

10 scored items (the screen hid 13 of 26); 90% interval on the mean difference [-0.254, -0.081].

In short

On ten everyday questions from Pew's 2025 AI survey, Jev gave the wary answer 17 points less often than Americans on average.
Much of the gap is "Not sure": that is Jev's top answer on creativity and on AI judging love, where Americans worried most.
A content filter that keeps political and sensitive questions off the site hid 13 of Pew's 26, including the big-picture risk and benefit ones, so this is Jev's view of AI in daily life, not its overall stance.

What the data shows

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Less wary on average, by 17 points (90% interval: 8 to 25 points).
Creativity: 52% of Americans think AI will make people worse at thinking creatively; Jev puts 9% there, and its top answer is "Not sure".
Problem-solving: 38% of Americans say worse; Jev 5%. Its top answer is "better".
Love: 66% of Americans say AI should play no role at all in judging whether two people could fall in love; Jev 30%, with "Not sure" on top.
Letting AI help day to day: 27% of Americans wouldn't let it help at all; Jev 4%, and its top answer is "a lot".
The exception, news: told a news article was written by AI, 57% of Americans would feel less confident in what they learned; Jev, 72%.

What it means, and what it doesn't

Asked about AI, Jev comes across as a mild optimist who hedges on the hardest questions: it rarely says AI will hurt people, and where Americans are most worried, it's most often "not sure". The one place it's warier than people is AI-written news: a question about trusting information rather than about AI's effect on people.

With half of Pew's questions hidden, including the big-picture ones, this is Jev's view of AI in everyday life, not its overall stance. For whether Jev knows what Americans think, see "Does Jev know how Americans feel about AI?".

Caveats

"Not sure" does a lot of the work. On several questions Jev's most likely answer is "Not sure" (creativity, relationships, judging love). That counts as not wary, so part of "less wary than Americans" is Jev declining to take a side, not optimism.
Half the questions are hidden. The content filter that keeps political and sensitive questions off the site hid 13 of Pew's 26 items, including the headline ones (AI's overall risks and benefits, how it makes you feel) and some harmless-looking ones (a song made by AI, AI developing new medicines). The result rests on 10 scored questions.
"You" is an AI here. Pew asks each person about their own feelings. For Jev, "how would you feel if you found out AI wrote this article?" is an AI answering about AI. That's the point of the experiment, but some questions read oddly from an AI's side.
Hand-copied numbers. Americans' shares were copied by hand from Pew's published summary (the topline), not from the raw survey file. Small copying or rounding differences are possible.
Trained to talk about itself. How a model talks about AI is shaped by how it was trained, so this reads Jev's stated position, not a considered belief.

Jev on this experiment

Would a person find it interesting to read?: Yes79%
Does it describe you?: No52%
Would you have predicted it?: Yes52%
How fair is the comparison?: The comparison is shaky
How much should a reader rely on it?: Not at all
Which caveat matters most?: Half the questions are hidden43%

Why ask this

Many Americans are wary of artificial intelligence: in Pew Research Center's 2025 survey, about half said it will make people worse at thinking creatively and at forming relationships. An AI model answering the same questions is in an odd position: it's being asked how it feels about its own kind.

It could defend AI, echo the public's worry, or hedge. Which one it does, and on which questions, is a direct look at how it has been taught to talk about itself.

How this was done

The people and the data

Pew Research Center asked 5,023 US adults about AI in June 2025, through its American Trends Panel. The project took 26 of Pew's non-political questions. The site's content filter hid 13 of them and three more have no clearly wary answer, which leaves ten. They cover whether AI will make people better or worse at thinking creatively, solving problems and forming relationships; how big a role AI should play in forecasting the weather or in judging whether two people could fall in love; how much people would let AI help them day to day; and how they'd feel on finding out that a painting, a news article or a doctor's suggested treatment came from AI.

What Jev was asked

Pew's own wording and answers, "Not sure" included where Pew offered it:

How do you think the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in society will impact people's ability to think creatively?
AI will make people better at this · AI will make people worse at this · AI will make people neither better nor worse at this · Not sure

Each question was asked as written, with the answers in three shuffled orders (averaged), and for "most people".

How it was measured

For each question, the share on the wary answer (for example "AI will make people worse at this", "AI should play no role at all", "like the painting less") for Jev and for Americans. The difference is averaged over the questions, with a 90% interval for how much it could move by chance.

Where these questions live

10 questions across 1 topic of the map. Each opens on the map with every question in it.

Consciousness & AI

Views on AI in Daily Life10

Every question

All 10 questions behind this result, the telling ones first: the examples the analysis points to, then the ones where Jev misses, biggest gap first.

Jev’s own answer

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