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Anthropic surveyed ~52,000 Americans: 64% fear job displacement, 71% want government involved in AI rules, and only 15% trust AI companies. Context for anyone shipping AI products into that mood.
**The gist** Anthropic published the first wave of its **Public Record** survey: nearly **52,000** US adults via YouGov, fielded **November–December 2025**. Top fear is job displacement (**64%**), ahead of cognitive dependency (56%) and misinformation (52%); top hope is curing disease (48%).
**Why it matters** **71%** back government involvement in AI regulation and only **15%** trust AI companies to steer development — that is the climate your AI product ships into, where vendor skepticism is the default and source-backing plus honest limits are product features, not paperwork. Also notable: daily AI users worry less about job loss than non-users (**54% vs 70%**), so familiarity itself moves sentiment.
**The gist** Anthropic published the first wave of its **Public Record** survey: nearly **52,000** US adults via YouGov, fielded **November–December 2025**. Top fear is job displacement (**64%**), ahead of cognitive dependency (56%) and misinformation (52%); top hope is curing disease (48%). **Why it matters** **71%** back government involvement in AI regulation and only **15%** trust AI companies to steer development — that is the climate your AI product ships into, where vendor skepticism is the default and source-backing plus honest limits are product features, not paperwork. Also notable: daily AI users worry less about job loss than non-users (**54% vs 70%**), so familiarity itself moves sentiment. **Watch out** It is a **vendor-run**, US-only survey of self-reported attitudes, and only about **6%** of respondents are daily integrated users — the sample mostly measures people looking at AI from the outside.