Weekly: 10.3.26
Pew Research Center found that AI-generated "synthetic" respondents failed to reproduce results from three human surveys drawn from its American Trends Panel, with the errors especially pronounced for…
Pew Research Center found that AI-generated "synthetic" respondents failed to reproduce results from three human surveys drawn from its American Trends Panel, with the errors especially pronounced for…
A Pew Research Center analysis found that OpenAI's GPT-5.1 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 each matched real American Trends Panel survey data within 5.0 percentage points on only a subset of question…
Pew Research Center found that synthetic survey samples generated by OpenAI's GPT-5.1 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 both failed to replicate human polling results from its American Trends Panel, wit…
Pew Research Center's analysis of AI-generated synthetic polling found that AI respondents systematically flatten the diversity of U.S. public opinion, in one case estimating 98% of Americans think Ch…
Pew Research Center found that AI-generated synthetic surveys failed to track real shifts in U.S. public opinion, estimating President Donald Trump's approval at a flat 46% in both January and April 2…
Pew Research Center found that synthetic survey respondents built on large language models selected explicit "not sure" options just 4% of the time, versus 16% for human panelists on its American Tren…
AI-generated synthetic survey respondents differed from real human poll results by an average of 12 percentage points across three American Trends Panel waves, according to a Pew Research Center evalu…
Pew Research Center found that AI-generated survey respondents differed from human American Trends Panel respondents by an average of 12 percentage points across nearly 300 individual survey questions…
Meta and TikTok have settled separate child safety lawsuits, with Meta agreeing to a $17 billion settlement and product changes in response to a lawsuit brought by 47 U.S. states, and TikTok agreeing …
A Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults finds that 72% say it is extremely or very important that a doctor or other healthcare provider tells them if AI is used in their healthcare, and 81% want t…
A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28, 2026, found that 34% of Americans use AI chatbots for at least one of eight health-related reasons, with 28% citing quick access…
A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28, 2026, finds that Americans are more likely to say chatbots do more to hurt than help people who use them for loneliness (39% hur…
Pew Research Center reports that one-in-ten webpages in a random sample of 10,000 collected in July 2026 show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI, a trend that began with ChatGPT's re…
A Pew Research Center analysis of nearly half a million English-language webpages from the Common Crawl archive found that 10% of all pages as of July 2026 show significant signs of AI authorship, and…
A new analysis of 490,000 webpages from Common Crawl snapshots between January 2021 and July 2026 found that 35% of pages with post-ChatGPT publication dates show signs of AI authorship, according to …
A Pew Research Center survey conducted June 22-28, 2026, found that 52% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, and for the first time a majority of adults under 30…
Pew Research Center has outlined its approach to artificial intelligence, emphasizing that humans remain central to its research while using AI for website production, data analysis, and editorial tas…
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 36% of Americans believe China is more advanced than the United States in developing artificial intelligence, while only 12% say the U.S. is ahead. The surv…
A Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted July 6-12, 2026, finds the Republican Party's advantage on immigration narrowing, with 41% agreeing with Republicans and 36% with Democrats on imm…
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 49% of U.S. adults now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024, with 24% using them daily. About a third of Americans own smart speakers, but majorities are sk…