· Jun 12, 2026
Anthropic reports Americans’ hopes and concerns about AI
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published its first Anthropic Public Record results on June 12, 2026, reporting a survey of Americans’ hopes and concerns about AI. The company says respondents most often named curing diseases among their hopes, while job loss was their most common fear. It also reports broad support for government involvement in AI and low trust in AI companies’ decisions about the technology. Anthropic says the survey was fielded online by YouGov in November and December of 2025, with responses weighted to represent the US population age 16 and over. The results describe respondents’ views at that time; they do not establish how AI will affect jobs or whether people’s concerns will change. Anthropic plans to repeat the survey and expand beyond the US, but the results of future surveys are not yet known.
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Original source date: Jun 12, 2026 (2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z).
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Text as retrieved on October 28, 2026; originally published June 12, 2026. The page was modified after publication. The retrieved text may include later additions; this reading uses the survey results and plans presented without treating later-dated claims as part of the original publication. The survey reports respondents’ views, not measured effects of AI on jobs or other outcomes. Subgroup margins of error are larger than the national margin of error.
Open question
How will Americans’ reported hopes, concerns, and views on AI governance change in future waves of the survey?
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Anthropic reports that curing diseases was the most frequently selected hope for AI among respondents.
Nearly half (48%) of Americans ranked curing diseases like cancer or Alzheimer’s as one of their top three hopes for AI
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Anthropic reports that job loss was the most common concern about AI among respondents.
Job loss was by far the most common concern, held by nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans.
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Anthropic reports that most surveyed Americans supported government involvement in AI development and regulation.
71% of Americans say the government should be involved in the development and regulation of AI.
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Anthropic reports low trust in AI companies’ decisions about how AI is developed and used.
Only 15% of Americans said they trust AI companies to make decisions about how the technology is developed and used.
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Anthropic says the survey was fielded online by YouGov and weighted to represent the US resident population age 16 and over.
Data are weighted to be representative of the US resident population age 16 and over on state, age, gender, education, and race/ethnicity.
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Anthropic says it plans to repeat the survey and expand it beyond the US.
In the future, we plan to expand outside the US.
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Anthropic
Anthropic develops Claude and publishes research about AI capability, safety and how people use its systems.
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Version 1 · 2026-10-30T08:33:58.236Z
Anthropic reports Americans’ hopes and concerns about AI
published its first Anthropic Public Record results on June 12, 2026, reporting a survey of Americans’ hopes and concerns about AI. The company says respondents most often named curing diseases among their hopes, while job loss was their most common fear. It also reports broad support for government involvement in AI and low trust in AI companies’ decisions about the technology. Anthropic says the survey was fielded online by YouGov in November and December of 2025, with responses weighted to represent the US population age 16 and over. The results describe respondents’ views at that time; they do not establish how AI will affect jobs or whether people’s concerns will change. Anthropic plans to repeat the survey and expand beyond the US, but the results of future surveys are not yet known.
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Source details
Original source date: Jun 12, 2026 (2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z).
Date basis: Date stated on the publisher’s page.
Added to Escape Meridian: 2026-10-30T08:33:58.236Z. First observed: 2026-10-21T06:17:25.295Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-28T04:49:53.799Z.
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Text as retrieved on October 28, 2026; originally published June 12, 2026. The page was modified after publication. The retrieved text may include later additions; this reading uses the survey results and plans presented without treating later-dated claims as part of the original publication. The survey reports respondents’ views, not measured effects of AI on jobs or other outcomes. Subgroup margins of error are larger than the national margin of error.
Open question
How will Americans’ reported hopes, concerns, and views on AI governance change in future waves of the survey?
Source-stated
Anthropic reports that curing diseases was the most frequently selected hope for AI among respondents.
Nearly half (48%) of Americans ranked curing diseases like cancer or Alzheimer’s as one of their top three hopes for AI
Source-stated
Anthropic reports that job loss was the most common concern about AI among respondents.
Job loss was by far the most common concern, held by nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans.
Source-stated
Anthropic reports that most surveyed Americans supported government involvement in AI development and regulation.
71% of Americans say the government should be involved in the development and regulation of AI.
Source-stated
Anthropic reports low trust in AI companies’ decisions about how AI is developed and used.
Only 15% of Americans said they trust AI companies to make decisions about how the technology is developed and used.
Source-stated
Anthropic says the survey was fielded online by YouGov and weighted to represent the US resident population age 16 and over.
Data are weighted to be representative of the US resident population age 16 and over on state, age, gender, education, and race/ethnicity.
Source-stated
Anthropic says it plans to repeat the survey and expand it beyond the US.
In the future, we plan to expand outside the US.
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Anthropic · Publisher
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Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement.
Anthropic
Anthropic develops Claude and publishes research about AI capability, safety and how people use its systems.
Editorial provenance
Version 1. Publication ID: 3c0ae66b-73e5-3b39-4e4a-922251baab95.
Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5.
Source check: passed by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-10-30T08:33:56.090Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true.
Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge_admitted_by_model.
Observation: e406df02029a4955754dbc13916929cd2cc4d410e432cbc7569066f2e945bee4. Source text hash: 32bea60530238feb91307b7474ddbacd44bef1e490b3f52a0622f9d6fbce1e10.
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attribution — pass: The reading attributes the survey, its findings and its plans to Anthropic, which is the publisher and author of the page. Each claim is framed as what Anthropic reports or says.
We’re conducting a new survey series, Anthropic Public Record, to understand how the public thinks and feels about AI
summary — pass: The title, summary and question match the source. The reading names the actor, states the main findings (top hope, top fear, government involvement, low trust), and explains the fieldwork and weighting in plain language. It notes that these are opinions, not measured effects. The question about future waves follows from the stated plan to repeat the survey.
The Anthropic Public Record will be repeated regularly, evolving in scope as new topics become more salient
date — pass: The stated date, June 12, 2026, matches the UTC day of evidence.originalPublished. The November–December 2025 fieldwork period appears in the source. Plans are presented as plans, and future results are described as unknown. The page was edited after publication (dateModified October 23, 2026). However, the reading relies only on core survey findings and the stated plans, which are plainly part of the report, and it discloses the edit. This is a publisher page, so no archive disclosure is needed.
Fieldwork was conducted by YouGov from its online panel between November 1 and December 11, 2025.
support — pass: Every claim's excerpt appears verbatim in the source and supports the claim: 48% for curing diseases, which topped the list; job loss at 64%; 71% supporting government involvement; 15% trusting AI companies; YouGov fieldwork with weighting to the population age 16 and over; and the plan to expand outside the US. The cited passages are core report content, not apparent later additions. The limitations correctly avoid presenting opinions as real-world outcomes.
Curing disease topped the list, with 48% of respondents putting it in their top three
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