{"id":275899,"date":"2025-10-01T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=short-read&p=275899"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:55:11","slug":"americans-have-mixed-feelings-about-ai-summaries-in-search-results","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/10\/01\/americans-have-mixed-feelings-about-ai-summaries-in-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans have mixed feelings about AI summaries in search results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many search engines like Google or Bing now use artificial intelligence (AI) to provide users with short answers or overviews<\/a> at the top of the page that are separate from traditional search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A majority of U.S. adults (65%) at least sometimes come across these AI summaries in search results.<\/strong> That includes 45% who see them extremely often or often, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. A smaller share (17%) say they rarely or never come across these summaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An additional 13% say they aren\u2019t sure how often they see these summaries, which are a relatively new feature from search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/summary>\n

Pew Research Center conducted this analysis as part of our ongoing exploration of the impact of artificial intelligence on society, including on the news and information environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To understand the views of the American public, we surveyed 5,153 U.S. adults from Aug. 18 to 24, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection. Interviews were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other factors. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions used for this analysis<\/a>, the topline<\/a> and the methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Some groups are more likely to say they come across AI summaries in search results extremely often or often<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n