Three years ago, as OpenAI’s ChatGPT was making its splashy debut, a Pew Research center survey found that nearly one in five Americans saw AI as a benefit rather than a threat. But by 2025, 43 percent of U.S. adults now believe AI is more likely to harm them than help them in the future, according to Pew.

1 in 5 people seeing something as positive is not a high approval rating in the beginning.