{"slug": "americans-concerns-about-ai-outweigh-excitement-nearly-threefold-poll", "title": "Americans’ concerns about AI outweigh excitement nearly threefold: Poll", "summary": "A new poll from Athena Insights finds that Americans are nearly three times as likely to be concerned about AI's growing role in society as they are excited, with the majority expressing unease about the technology's impact.", "body_md": "Americans are nearly three times as likely to be concerned rather than excited about the growing footprint of artificial intelligence in society, according to a new biweekly survey about the public’s sentiment on the advancing technology. The “Americans on AI” poll, first shared with The Hill by the new nonprofit Athena Insights, found the majority…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/americans-concerns-about-ai-outweigh-excitement-nearly-threefold-poll", "canonical_source": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5955918-americans-ai-sentiment-poll/", "published_at": "2026-07-07 09:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 10:02:18.254170+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Athena Insights", "The Hill"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/americans-concerns-about-ai-outweigh-excitement-nearly-threefold-poll", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/americans-concerns-about-ai-outweigh-excitement-nearly-threefold-poll.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/americans-concerns-about-ai-outweigh-excitement-nearly-threefold-poll.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/americans-concerns-about-ai-outweigh-excitement-nearly-threefold-poll.jsonld"}}