In profoundly unsurprising news, a poll is showing that as people learn more about LLM artificial intelligence, the more they hate it.
This is not a surprise. Except for some very limited edge cases (The Odysseus Google Maps video), there is little real benefit shown, and little benefit promised, by the technology.
For a time, it appeared as if AI would find broad acceptance among the American masses.
The peanut gallery on social media happily embraced early image generation models as researchers appeared to make significant breakthroughs with the aid of their newfound tools. On paper, surveys found public attitudes toward the tech continued to improve into 2025 — before sharply reversing.
In 2026, America’s honeymoon phase with AI seems to be quickly wearing off. According to a joint poll conducted by Bentley University and Gallup, the percentage of US adults who think AI does “more harm than good” is rising, from 31 percent in 2025 to 39 percent this year, while a piddling 9 percent still think the tech does “more good than harm.”
As outlooks sour, the Bentley-Gallup poll found that Americans’ familiarity with AI continues to grow. In 2026, 70 percent of those polled said they’re “somewhat or extremely knowledgeable” about AI, up 6 percent compared to 2024. The implication probably gives OpenAI Sam Altman a migraine: the more people learn about AI, the less they seem to want it in their lives.
The American public is smarter than most of our oligarchs think.
It just takes them a while to examine complex issues like this, because they have bills to pay and lives to live.
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