Gallup finds daily AI use in 37 countries, and a positive majority in 34
A Gallup and Microsoft survey's first slice, reported by 404 Media, covers 37 countries, with a plan to reach 140. A median of 81 per cent were aware of AI tools and a median of 43 per cent used them daily. Semafor reports that in 34 of those 37 countries more adults feel positive about AI than negative. The United States is one of the few where negative feelings outweighed positive ones.
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Awareness and daily use
The first slice of a Gallup and Microsoft survey, reported by 404 Media, covers 37 countries, and the study is planned to reach 140. A median of 81 per cent were aware of AI tools and a median of 43 per cent used them daily. Semafor, updated on 23 September, uses that 37-country slice as the frame for a different cut of the same poll: in 34 of 37 countries, more adults express positive feelings about AI than negative ones. Gallup told 404 Media it defined a daily user as an employed person who used AI every day for work or personal tasks, or an unemployed person who used it every day.[1], [2]
Where the feeling turns
The United States is one of the few countries where negative feelings outweighed positive ones, 404 Media reports from the Gallup slice. That exception sits inside Semafor's count: a positive majority in 34 of 37 countries leaves a small set, and the United States is named on the negative side of it. The survey says more frequent use travels with higher trust, and it does not separate which one produces the other. A reader can know the medians and the 34-country majority without being told that daily use brought the warmer view, or the reverse.[1]
What a daily user is
The 43 per cent median is only readable once Gallup's definition is kept in view. A daily user, Gallup told 404 Media, is an employed person using AI every day for work or personal tasks, or an unemployed person using it every day. The 81 per cent median is awareness of AI tools, not approval. Semafor's 34 of 37 is a comparison of positive and negative feeling among adults in those countries, not a claim that the same people are the daily users. The slice is the first cut of a study planned to reach 140 countries, so the medians describe this 37-country set.[1], [2]
