{"id":398208,"date":"2026-04-18T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/398208\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:40:11","slug":"ai-trusted-less-than-social-media-and-airlines-with-grok-placing-last-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/398208\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Trusted Less Than Social Media and Airlines, With Grok Placing Last, Survey Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Google Gemini is the most trusted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/best-ai-chatbots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">AI platform<\/a> among its competition, but many people still have concerns about the technology, according to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theacsi.org\/news-and-resources\/press-releases\/2026\/04\/16\/press-release-ai-platforms-study-2026\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" class=\"c-regularLink\">American Customer Satisfaction Index poll<\/a>\u00a0released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">In ACSI&#8217;s results, AI scored an overall customer satisfaction score of 73 on a scale of 0 to 100, which the authors noted was slightly below social media (74), airlines and mortgage lenders, but in line with energy utilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of the five platforms mentioned in the survey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/what-is-gemini-everything-you-should-know-about-googles-ai-tool\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Google Gemini<\/a> led with 76, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/what-is-copilot-everything-you-need-to-know-about-microsofts-ai-tools\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Copilot<\/a> (74), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/anthropics-claude-what-you-need-to-know-about-this-ai-tool\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Claude<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/what-is-chatgpt-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a> (both 73), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/what-is-grok-everything-to-know-about-elon-musks-ai-tool\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Grok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/what-is-perplexity-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-ai-chatbot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">Perplexity<\/a> (both 71). Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theacsi.org\/industries\/interactive-media-subscription-entertainment\/social-media\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" class=\"c-regularLink\">TikTok (77) and YouTube (78)<\/a>\u00a0both scored better than the AI platforms. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/ai-atlas\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-shortcodeImage_imageContainer\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"CNET AI Atlas badge; click to see more\" height=\"268.105702364395\" width=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Gemini is one of the most prolific AI services, with access via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/home\/smart-home\/best-google-smart-home-devices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">smart speakers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/google-tv-adds-gemini-ai-integration-so-you-can-talk-to-your-television\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">TVs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/best-phone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">phones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/best-desktop-computer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">computers<\/a>, while most ChatGPT users access the AI tool via the <a href=\"http:\/\/openai.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" class=\"c-regularLink\">ChatGPT website<\/a> or mobile app, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/what-is-grok-everything-to-know-about-elon-musks-ai-tool\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grok via social media platform X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ACSI poll found that 43% of respondents said reduced human-to-human interaction is their main concern, followed by job loss for future generations (37%) and their own job risk (31%), based on interviews with 2,711 US adults.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Boomers were the most skeptical generation in the poll, with 35% saying they are very concerned about AI&#8217;s effects, compared to just 6% who view it extremely favorably.<\/p>\n<p>Disconnect between AI adoption and perception<\/p>\n<p>While platforms such as ChatGPT have up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/chatgpt-has-almost-1-billion-weekly-users\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1 billion weekly users<\/a>, there is still a disconnect between AI&#8217;s adoption and public perception of it, which is driven by concerns over privacy, the spread of misinformation and the loss of jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consumers spent the last decade learning to distrust how social media platforms handle their data, and AI&#8217;s privacy scores suggest they&#8217;re carrying that skepticism forward,&#8221; said Forrest Morgeson, associate professor of marketing at Michigan State University and director of research emeritus at the ACSI.<\/p>\n<p>21% reported an &#8220;extremely favorable&#8221; outlook toward AI, while an equal 21% said they are &#8220;very concerned about the consequences.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These results were in line with another poll <a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.com\/en-us\/daily-results\/20260414-65233-1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" class=\"c-regularLink\">published by YouGov<\/a> this week, which found that only 29% think the positive effects of AI outweigh the negative ones, while 36% think its net effects are negative.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that more than half of the people interviewed (56%) had no recent experience with AI, but of the 44% who did, half of them use AI at least once a day, and the usage went up with people who earned over $100,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, an NBC poll suggested that AI was one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/ai-unpopular-in-america-new-nbc-poll\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">least-liked things in America<\/a>, but it was still more popular than the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Gemini is the most trusted AI platform among its competition, but many people still have concerns about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-398208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}