3. Public and expert predictions for AI’s next 20 years
We explore how the public and experts anticipate potential positive and negative impacts of AI across key areas of life and society in the coming decades.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
We explore how the public and experts anticipate potential positive and negative impacts of AI across key areas of life and society in the coming decades.
Among the 10 largest occupations held by young adults without a college degree, large numbers are employed as retail salespersons and first-line supervisors of sales workers.
A median of 28% of adults across 24 countries say they are online almost constantly, and 40% say they use the internet several times a day.
Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the first far-right political party to win a state election in Germany since World War II.
Many worldwide are dissatisfied with how democracy is working. In several high-income democracies, dissatisfaction has been on the rise since 2021.
American workers have mixed feelings about how AI technologies, like ChatGPT, will affect jobs in the future.
In East and Southeast Asia, half or more of adults say that people who disagree with their government’s actions should be able to publicly criticize the government.
As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.
One-in-five U.S. adults ages 50 and older have never had children, according to Pew Research Center analysis of government data.[5. numoffset=”5″ In this analysis, “children” refers to biological children only. Refer to Methodology section for more details.] Not having children is more common among adults in their 50s and 60s than those in their 70s. […]
Among U.S. adults who don’t have children, those ages 50 and older have mixed views on whether they ever wanted to have them in the first place. And their reasons for never having kids differ from those given by younger adults who say they’re unlikely to have them. The top reason cited by those ages […]
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