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Even Americans Who Use AI Every Day Are Worried About It

September 24, 2026
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A Gallup survey commissioned by Microsoft found that 68% of American daily AI users say AI makes them feel worried, compared with 80% of less frequent users and 74% of non-users. The US was the most worried of 37 countries, at 74% of AI-aware adults, ahead of the Netherlands, Canada and the UK. Trust rises with use: 45% of US daily users trust AI’s accuracy against 8% of non-users. This article explains the survey, the “worried West” paradox, the trust gap, the adoption ladder from Singapore to Malawi, three figures early coverage got wrong, and what businesses rolling out AI should learn.

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X Claims It Found a Chinese Bot Farm Posting Anti-AI Data Center Sentiments

August 28, 2026
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On 27 August 2026 X’s Global Government Affairs account said its Safety team had identified a Chinese bot farm of roughly 200,000 inauthentic accounts, and that 200 of them were posting comic strips and text claiming AI data centers raise household electricity bills and strain local grids. This breakdown covers exactly what X disclosed and in what words, how the artwork ties the accounts to the “Data Center Bandwagon” campaign OpenAI named and banned in June 2026, why 200 accounts are a rounding error next to a domestic backlash that has stalled roughly $130 billion of construction in a single quarter, what PJM capacity prices and Goldman Sachs forecasts say about electricity bills, and the methodology X has still not published.