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  "id": "pew-ai-experts-56-vs-public-17-positive-impact",
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  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/pew-ai-experts-56-vs-public-17-positive-impact/",
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  "claim": "56% of AI experts but only 17% of U.S. adults expect AI to have a positive impact on the U.S. over 20 years (Pew, 2025)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"AI experts are far more optimistic than the public\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Pew Research Center",
    "title": "How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence (Apr. 3, 2025)",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "the AI experts we surveyed are far more likely than Americans overall to believe AI will have a very or somewhat positive impact on the United States over the next 20 years (56% vs. 17%).",
  "method": "Survey of 5,410 U.S. adults (American Trends Panel) and 1,013 AI experts drawn from authors and presenters at 21 AI conferences.",
  "drift": [
    "Sample: 'experts' are conference authors and presenters, not a random sample of the field"
  ],
  "interest": "n/a (nonpartisan research center funded mainly by The Pew Charitable Trusts).",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Pew found in 2024 surveys that 56% of AI experts, versus 17% of U.S. adults, expect AI to have a positive impact on the U.S. over the next 20 years.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Pew Research Center — How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View AI (2025)",
      "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "Public survey Aug. 12–18, 2024; expert survey Aug. 14–Oct. 31, 2024",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}