According to the stats, most “Western world” countries show a mix of optimism and concern about AI, and broadly agree more safeguards are needed. By comparison, India and China exhibit much higher optimism towards AI, and believe existing safeguards are sufficient.
Chart made by myself using data from KPMG’s “Trust, attittudes, and use of artificial intelligence: a global study 2025”.
Clear correlation with the public preferring “growing out of problems” or “redistributing out of problems”.
India and China are cooked
This makes sense because both India and China have been experiencing rapid and visible economic growth. Obviously the average quality of life is much lower than in thr west, but you can very clearly see how much the quality of life improves every few years. This probably makes them pre disposed to be more positive towards technological developments
Indians see the technology as a chance to massively boost economic growth and catch up to the west. Also it is a country full of very young, ambitious and generally technooptomistic people
A lot of the above also applies to China but to a lesser degree. However something to note about China is that their ai industry is heavily regulated for uh, obvious reasons, so this might help assuage skme of the concerns people have. Also it is very easy to frame the AI race in USA vs China geopolitical terms, and the Chinese people are quite a bit more nationalistic than Americans. For many Chinese, this is the equivalent of the space race. Though much higher stakes
Meanwhile in the developed countries AI is seen as a destabilizing, and many people have both material (will this robot take my job) and postmaterial (does ai art “have soul”) concerns. It makes sense it’s a lot more controversial
China views AI as their “space race”. An area where with significant investment that can have a landmark technological victory over the United States.
The answer to the last question feels a bit Dunning Kruger though given the responses around safeguards
This feels like “Poorer/developing countries show more trust in AI as if it’s seen as a way to close the wealth gap with richer countries”.
Like there is more excitement in the potential to get rich out of this technology if you’re from Nigeria, India, China, Egypt, Turkiye
You can see it in the [source report page 28, which comes with a very nice graph too](https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-global-report.pdf).
I’m not sure if this matches with other countries like China, but Indians are also highly trusting of vaccines and believe in global warming more (comparatively). I don’t know what makes us as a population more pre-disposed to accepting science/new technology.
The Japanese are like, “I’ve seen that anime, all 200 of them.”
China and India: the two countries benefitting the most from AI that makes up from the basic deficiencie on the global market.
From an accessibility standpoint, Germany and China’s colors are way too similar. Maybe one should be more of a yellow
We say yes, we’re 1/2 on board now ,Until we are sorry.
Like a thief….NP until caught
India and China shall be so predictable from relying on AI.
I like this graph and data, but it now makes me curious about what the general thinking/opinions are behind this.
Why aren’t the two countries as afraid of the widespread adoption of AI and the possible changes it’ll bring? As far as I’ve heard, China’s job market situation isn’t great either.
![[OC] Attitudes towards AI by country (2025)](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/nm94aetu9v6g1-1920x1024.png)
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According to the stats, most “Western world” countries show a mix of optimism and concern about AI, and broadly agree more safeguards are needed. By comparison, India and China exhibit much higher optimism towards AI, and believe existing safeguards are sufficient.
Chart made by myself using data from KPMG’s “Trust, attittudes, and use of artificial intelligence: a global study 2025”.
Links and more stats:
* [USA](https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-usa-snapshot.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf)
* [UK](https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-uk-snapshot.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf)
* [Germany](https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-germany-snapshot.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf)
* [Japan](https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-japan-snapshot.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf)
* [India](https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-india-snapshot.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf)
* [China](https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-china-snapshot.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf)
No AI was used in the making of this chart.
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Clear correlation with the public preferring “growing out of problems” or “redistributing out of problems”.
India and China are cooked
This makes sense because both India and China have been experiencing rapid and visible economic growth. Obviously the average quality of life is much lower than in thr west, but you can very clearly see how much the quality of life improves every few years. This probably makes them pre disposed to be more positive towards technological developments
Indians see the technology as a chance to massively boost economic growth and catch up to the west. Also it is a country full of very young, ambitious and generally technooptomistic people
A lot of the above also applies to China but to a lesser degree. However something to note about China is that their ai industry is heavily regulated for uh, obvious reasons, so this might help assuage skme of the concerns people have. Also it is very easy to frame the AI race in USA vs China geopolitical terms, and the Chinese people are quite a bit more nationalistic than Americans. For many Chinese, this is the equivalent of the space race. Though much higher stakes
Meanwhile in the developed countries AI is seen as a destabilizing, and many people have both material (will this robot take my job) and postmaterial (does ai art “have soul”) concerns. It makes sense it’s a lot more controversial
China views AI as their “space race”. An area where with significant investment that can have a landmark technological victory over the United States.
The answer to the last question feels a bit Dunning Kruger though given the responses around safeguards
This feels like “Poorer/developing countries show more trust in AI as if it’s seen as a way to close the wealth gap with richer countries”.
Like there is more excitement in the potential to get rich out of this technology if you’re from Nigeria, India, China, Egypt, Turkiye
You can see it in the [source report page 28, which comes with a very nice graph too](https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-global-report.pdf).
I’m not sure if this matches with other countries like China, but Indians are also highly trusting of vaccines and believe in global warming more (comparatively). I don’t know what makes us as a population more pre-disposed to accepting science/new technology.
The Japanese are like, “I’ve seen that anime, all 200 of them.”
China and India: the two countries benefitting the most from AI that makes up from the basic deficiencie on the global market.
From an accessibility standpoint, Germany and China’s colors are way too similar. Maybe one should be more of a yellow
We say yes, we’re 1/2 on board now ,Until we are sorry.
Like a thief….NP until caught
India and China shall be so predictable from relying on AI.
I like this graph and data, but it now makes me curious about what the general thinking/opinions are behind this.
Why aren’t the two countries as afraid of the widespread adoption of AI and the possible changes it’ll bring? As far as I’ve heard, China’s job market situation isn’t great either.
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