Results from the first Anthropic Public Record
Anthropic News · 2026-06-12
Anthropic's first Anthropic Public Record survey of nearly 52,000 Americans finds that AI-induced job loss is the dominant fear (64%), only 15% trust AI companies to self-regulate, and a bipartisan supermajority of over 70% supports government regulation of AI.
Extraction
Topics: ai-public-opinionai-governanceai-regulationai-fearssurvey-research
Claims
- AI-induced job loss is the top fear among 64% of Americans, evenly distributed across party lines, education levels, and geographies.
- Only 15% of Americans trust AI companies to make decisions about AI development and use, the lowest figure of any institution tested, below government bodies and far below independent experts at 43%.
- Over 70% of Americans support government involvement in AI regulation, with bipartisan support (79% Democrats, 68% Republicans).
- Cognitive dependency on AI is primarily an anticipatory fear: only about one-fifth of those worried about dependency would feel significant disruption if AI became unavailable tomorrow.
- Americans who use AI daily at work are notably less worried about job loss (54%) and cognitive dependency (46%) than those who never use AI (70% and 62% respectively).
Key quotes
Only 15% of Americans said they trust AI companies to make decisions about how AI is developed and used.
Job loss was by far the most common concern, held by nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans.
On most questions, AI did not heavily divide Americans along typical partisan, geographic, or educational lines.