Gallup, Inc. is an analytics and advisory company headquartered at the Gallup Building, 901 F Street NW, Washington, D.C. (American AI Sentiment in 2026 (Gallup and SCSP)). It describes itself as delivering "analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems," drawing on "more than 85 years of experience" (Source: prnewswire.com). Its public-opinion research on artificial intelligence includes an annual study conducted with the Special Competitive Studies Project, a quarterly measure of AI use among employed adults, and surveys commissioned by foundations on young people and graduates.
Methods
Gallup's AI surveys with SCSP run on the Gallup Panel, a probability-based longitudinal panel of U.S. adults recruited through random-digit-dial telephone interviews covering landlines and cellphones and through address-based sampling. Gallup states that the panel "is not an opt-in panel." Samples are weighted to Current Population Survey demographic figures (Reward, Risk, and Regulation: American Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence (Gallup and SCSP, 2025); American AI Sentiment in 2026 (Gallup and SCSP)); for the 2025 wave, Gallup also weighted party affiliation to an average of its three most recent telephone polls (Source: news.gallup.com). The design contrasts with samples that combine probability panels with opt-in sources, such as the AP-NORC Center's TrueNorth-calibrated samples (AP-NORC/EPIC 2026 Energy Survey: AI, Data Centers, Climate and Energy).
Gallup's reports carry a copyright notice permitting download and copying provided proprietary notices are retained and that any web reference links to the original document in its entirety (American AI Sentiment in 2026 (Gallup and SCSP)).
AI survey work
Gallup–SCSP study of American attitudes toward AI
The first instalment, Reward, Risk, and Regulation: American Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence, surveyed 3,128 adults from April 25 to May 5, 2025 and covered use and trust, global competition, defense and the economy (Reward, Risk, and Regulation: American Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence (Gallup and SCSP, 2025)). Gallup released its findings on rules and safety testing in a separate news article of September 16, 2025 by Benedict Vigers and Justin Lall, reporting that 80% of adults favored maintaining AI safety and data security rules even if development slowed and 72% wanted independent experts to conduct safety tests (Source: news.gallup.com).
The second, American AI Sentiment in 2026, surveyed 3,152 adults from June 2–23, 2026. It found reported use up from 39% to 51% and self-reported knowledge up from 60% to 68%, trust in AI to make fair and unbiased decisions at 28% against 32% in 2025, which it described as "stable and low," and a reversal in economic expectations, with 45% expecting AI to reduce U.S. growth against 36% expecting a boost (American AI Sentiment in 2026 (Gallup and SCSP)). Gallup principal Justin Lall said on its release that the public is "becoming more experienced with AI while simultaneously becoming more cautious about its economic implications" (Source: prnewswire.com). See Public Opinion on AI.
AI use at work
The 2025 Gallup–SCSP report cited other Gallup polling, reported in a June 16, 2025 Gallup article by R. Pendell, as showing that AI use at work had nearly doubled in two years (Reward, Risk, and Regulation: American Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence (Gallup and SCSP, 2025)). The 2026 report cited Gallup's quarterly workforce study, which covers employed adults only, finding that 50% of employed U.S. adults used AI in their role at least a few times a year in the first quarter of 2026, 10 points more than in the second quarter of 2025 (American AI Sentiment in 2026 (Gallup and SCSP)).
Commissioned surveys of young people and graduates
A Gallup survey conducted for the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures, covering more than 1,500 U.S. respondents aged 14–29 in February–March 2026, found roughly 50% reporting daily or weekly AI use, flat year over year; hopefulness about AI fell from 27% to 18%, nearly a third said AI makes them feel angry, and close to half of working respondents said its risks outweigh its workplace benefits, an 11-point increase. The threat to entry-level jobs was the top concern for young workers (Source: nytimes.com). See AI as Normal Technology.
A Gallup–Lumina Foundation survey of nearly 6,000 Americans found 22% of 18- to 24-year-olds with two- or four-year degrees felt "very prepared" to compete in an AI-shaped job market, the highest share of any age group (Source: wsj.com). See AI Fluency Divide.
Data centers
A Gallup poll released May 13, 2026 found that 70% of Americans oppose data-center construction in their communities, with nearly half strongly opposed, and that more respondents would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center (Source: washingtonpost.com). See Data Center Siting / AI Power Politics.
Relationships
- related: Public Opinion on AI — the principal concept its AI survey work supplies.
- related: Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) — partner in the annual study of American attitudes toward AI.
- supports: Reward, Risk, and Regulation: American Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence (Gallup and SCSP, 2025), American AI Sentiment in 2026 (Gallup and SCSP) — co-producer and copyright holder.
- related: Pew Research Center, Annenberg Public Policy Center — other producers of recurring U.S. survey evidence on AI.
- related: AI Labor Disruption, AI Fluency Divide, Data Center Siting / AI Power Politics — pages carrying its workforce, graduate and data-center findings.