2026-09-24T09:00:29.710Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/politics/cnn-poll-ai-data-centers-vis
根据SSRS为CNN开展的最新民调，美国人对人工智能技术的发展更多持恐惧和担忧态度，而非希望和兴奋，且两党广泛认同联邦政府应加大对AI的监管力度。
这些担忧既涉及AI当前的发展现状，也包括一些科技人士和 whistle-blowers 提出的更具推测性的可能性。
近九成美国人表示，对于AI有朝一日超越人类智能的可能性，他们的担忧多于兴奋；更具体地说，同样有近八成受访者对为支持AI技术而不断兴建的数据中心感到担忧多于兴奋。约八成受访者对AI的快速发展以及AI可能从根本上改变人类生活方式的可能性持负面看法。仅有不到20%的人表示，他们对上述每种可能性都颇感兴奋。
从更贴近个人生活的层面来看，美国人认为AI对自身财务的负面影响多于正面影响（48%认为负面，18%认为正面）。年收入低于5万美元的美国人尤其如此，他们认为AI对自身财务产生负面影响的比例比高收入人群高出6个百分点。
总体而言，75%的美国人表示，他们对AI技术发展的感受更接近恐惧和担忧，而非希望和兴奋，其中43%的人对此感受强烈。
约七成受访者认为联邦政府在监管AI发展方面做得不够。民调显示，两党民众都支持政府采取行动，85%的民主党人、67%的无党派人士和63%的共和党人认为政府目前尚未尽到职责。这些结果表明，围绕AI议题已形成不同寻常的政治联盟，佛蒙特州进步党参议员伯尼·桑德斯和特朗普前战略家史蒂夫·班农等人都呼吁限制AI发展。
在共和党内部则存在意识形态分歧：52%的MAGA支持者共和党人及倾向共和党的无党派人士认为，政府目前在监管AI方面做得不够，而这一比例在非MAGA共和党人及倾向共和党的无党派人士中为64%。唐纳德·特朗普总统将对AI的担忧斥为“骗局”，并吹捧该技术潜在的经济收益。
尽管对AI的担忧大体上跨越党派界限，但民主党人对当前与AI相关的问题——包括其发展速度和不断增加的数据中心建设——的负面情绪明显比共和党人更强烈。民主党人比共和党人更有可能表示自己对数据中心“非常担忧”，差距达26个百分点；在对AI发展速度“非常担忧”的比例上，民主党人比共和党人高出22个百分点。
多数美国成年人（63%）表示，他们至少会在一定程度上关注AI发展的相关新闻，仅有18%的人表示会“非常密切”地关注。随着11月中期选举临近，近三分之二的登记选民表示，数据中心和AI将成为他们国会选举投票时“极其重要”或“非常重要”的考量因素，其中36%的人认为这一议题“极其重要”——不过该议题仍远落后于经济、选举与投票、通胀和医疗保健等话题。CNN此前报道，仅今年一年，相关数据中心的政治广告投入就已超过3100万美元。
民主党人往往比共和党人更倾向于将其视为至关重要的议题。近一半的民主党登记选民（45%）认为这是一个极其重要的议题，比持相同看法的共和党选民比例高出20个百分点。
除了在AI看法上的党派分歧之外，还存在性别差距。总体而言，女性对AI发展的恐惧和担忧程度高于男性（83%对67%）；她们更有可能认为政府在监管AI方面做得不够（75%对67%）；而在登记选民中，女性更有可能将其视为投票时的至关重要议题（70%认为极其或非常重要，男性这一比例为58%）。
尽管对AI快速发展的焦虑并未呈现代际差异——81%的45岁以下成年人表示担忧多于兴奋，与45岁及以上人群的83%几乎完全相同——但这一现象确实暴露了教育程度上的分歧。50%的美国非大学学历成年人表示，他们“非常担忧”AI可能从根本上改变人类生活方式，而这一比例在大学学历人群中为35%。
CNN的阿里尔·爱德华兹-莱维和爱德华·吴为本报道撰稿。
此次CNN民调由SSRS于9月16日至17日通过线上和电话方式开展，随机抽取了1206名美国成年人作为全国代表性样本。全样本结果的抽样误差范围为正负3.5个百分点。
Majority of Americans express ‘fear and concern’ about AI, say government should regulate it more: CNN poll
2026-09-24T09:00:29.710Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/politics/cnn-poll-ai-data-centers-vis
Americans regard the growth and development of AI technology with far more fear and concern than hope and excitement, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with broad partisan agreement that the federal government ought to do more to regulate it.
Those concerns stretch across the realities of AI’s growth today and more speculative possibilities raised by some technologists and whistle-blowers.
Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say they’re more concerned than excited by the possibility that AI could one day surpass human intelligence, and, more concretely, a similar number lean to concern over excitement about the growing number of data centers being constructed to support AI technology. And about 8 in 10 express negative sentiments about the rapid pace of AI development and about the chance that AI technology may fundamentally change our way of life. Fewer than 20% say they largely feel excitement about each of these possibilities.
Looking closer to home, Americans are more likely to say AI technology has a negative effect on their own finances than a positive one (48% negative vs. 18% positive). This is especially true among Americans who make less than $50K a year, who are 6 points likelier than higher earners to say AI has a negative effect on their finances.
All told, 75% of Americans say their feelings about the growth and development of AI technology are closer to fear and concern than hope and excitement, and 43% feel that way strongly.
About 7 in 10 say the federal government is not doing enough to regulate AI’s development. The survey suggests a bipartisan mandate for the government to act, with 85% of Democrats, 67% of independents and 63% of Republicans saying it has not yet done enough. Those findings speak to the unusual political alliances that have formed around the issue, with progressive Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon among those calling for curbs on AI development.
Within the GOP, an ideological divide emerges: 52% of MAGA-identified Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say the government isn’t doing enough so far to regulate AI, compared to 64% of non-MAGA Republicans and Republican-leaners who say the same. President Donald Trump has dismissed concerns about AI as a “HOAX” and touted the potential economic gains of the technology.
While concerns about AI generally cut across party lines, negativity about present-day matters related to AI – including its pace of development and the construction of a growing number of data centers – runs notably sharper among Democrats than Republicans. Democrats are 26 points more likely than Republicans to say they’re very concerned about data centers, and 22 points more likely to say they’re very concerned about the pace of AI development.
Most US adults, 63%, say they are following news about the growth and development of AI at least somewhat closely, with a smaller 18% saying they are paying very close attention. With the midterms approaching in November, nearly two-thirds of registered voters say that data centers and AI will be an extremely or very important factor in their vote for Congress, with 36% calling it extremely important – putting the issue far behind topics like the economy, voting and elections, inflation and healthcare. CNN previously reported that more than $31 million has been poured into political ads about data centers this year alone.
Democrats do tend to see it as a deeply important factor more often than Republicans. Almost half of Democratic registered voters, 45%, consider it an extremely important issue, 20 points higher than the share of Republican voters saying the same.
Alongside the partisan trends in views of AI, there is also a gender gap. Women express higher levels of fear and concern than men about the growth and development of AI generally (83% vs. 67%); are more likely to say the government isn’t doing enough to regulate it (75% vs. 67%); and, among registered voters, are much more likely to see it as a deeply important issue in their vote (70% extremely or very important vs. 58% among men).
While anxiety over AI’s rapid pace defies the generational divide – 81% of adults younger than 45 years old say they’re more concerned than excited, nearly identical to the 83% of those 45 and older who say the same – it does expose an educational split. Half of US adults without college degrees say they are very concerned that AI technology may fundamentally change our way of life, compared with 35% of those with a college degree.
CNN’s Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu contributed to this report.
The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS online and by telephone September 16-17 among a random national sample of 1,206 adults. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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