Evans: US Surveys Show Only Roughly 10% of People Use LLMs Daily
Benedict Evans · Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans · Sep 2, 2025 · at 34:34
Independent tech analyst Benedict Evans analyzes consumer survey data on generative AI adoption rates in the United States.
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“You look at survey data, and I did this slide in the last presentation I did of, like, five different surveys from the US from late last year, earlier this year, and it's all roughly the same. It's like something around 10% Give or take three or four percent of people, depending on the survey, are using this, say they're using this every day. Another sort of 15 to 20% of people say they're using it every week. And then there's, say you've got like, say 10% of people using it every day, say 15 or 20% of people using it every week. Another 20 or 30% of people who say I use it every month or two. And another 20 or 30% of people who said, yeah, I had a look, I didn't get it.”
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