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  That includes a 58% majority of adults under 30.

  has roughly doubled since summer 2023.
There are old people who might never use it. That said, my 70 year old parents use it sometimes.

My bubble is working adults, which is likely more represented by the 58% under 30 figure. However, this was a year ago. I'm guessing adoption has accelerated even more in a year. It wouldn't surprise me if it's 50% overall by now and 70-80% of adults under 30.

So these facts don't actually dispel my intuition.



Looks like you're wrong about 2026 as well: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-an...

It's still a minority of adults who use chatbots, let alone are daily users. It took me approximately 2 minutes to look this up.


  About half of U.S. adults now use AI chatbots, up from a third in 2024

Looks like I'm right? Or are you hung up on the 1%?


Your initial claim was the average american uses it daily.


I should have defined it as the average professional worker.

That said, I'm surprised that I'm not too far off. I'd bet if they include all LLM usage such as Google search summaries, it's close to daily.




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