Most US voters think Trump not serious about AI risks

Most US voters think President Donald Trump’s administration and Congress are not taking the risks of AI seriously enough and want the government to write new regulations for the technology, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Wide swaths of the electorate see AI as a major threat to American jobs, underscoring growing skepticism of the technology from voters across the political spectrum. Some 57% of registered voters in the poll — including a third of self-identified Republicans — said the Trump administration has not taken AI risks seriously enough or at all. Some 54% said the same about Congress.
Artificial intelligence has become a significant campaign issue ahead of the 3 November midterm elections when control of Congress is up for grabs. Some 62% of voters in the poll said the technology could get out of control and risk the future of humankind, roughly the same share of voters with that view in a Reuters/Ipsos poll from August of last year.   
Trump has repeatedly voiced unhesitating support for AI and the construction of data centers, arguing they are vital to US competitiveness. 
The new Reuters/Ipsos poll found 84% of voters saw AI as a threat to American workers. By comparison, only 60% saw illegal immigration as a threat to American workers, while 74% viewed competition from foreign workers that way and 73% said the same of large corporations.
A bipartisan majority of voters - including 80% of Democrats and 61% of Republicans - said they supported stricter government regulation on AI.
Fifty-six percent of voters in the Reuters/Ipsos poll back limits on building data centers, including 69% of Democrats, 55% of independents and 43% of Republicans.
Some 57% of voters think the US government should not use AI to determine the target of a military strike, up from 49% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in August 2025.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which was conducted online and nationwide, gathered responses from 4,506 US adults, including 3,526 registered voters. The survey has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.