More Concerned Than Excited About AI · Colombia (Pew)

## What this measures

The share of adults in Colombia who say the growing use of artificial intelligence in daily life makes them more concerned than excited. Pew asks: "Overall, how would you say the increased use of artificial intelligence in daily life makes you feel? More excited than concerned, more concerned than excited, or equally concerned and excited?"

## Why it matters

Public attitude toward AI sets the pace at which organizations can deploy it: how employees receive AI tools, how customers respond to AI features, and how hard regulators lean. A country where the worried far outnumber the enthusiastic is one where AI launches meet more resistance and AI rules arrive sooner.

## How to read it

Higher means more of the public is primarily worried about AI. The other answers are "more excited than concerned" and "equally concerned and excited", which in most countries is the largest group; the three do not quite sum to 100 because some people do not answer.

## What it does not say

It measures a feeling about AI in daily life, not views on existential risk, on specific uses, or on regulation. It says nothing about how much people use AI; worry and use rise together in many countries. Surveys are annual, so the series moves in steps. Where many people do not answer (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ghana and Nigeria each have 17% or more), the shares describe the people who did.

## Method

Pew Research Center. Outside the U.S. the question is part of Pew's Spring Global Attitudes Survey: nationally representative samples interviewed by phone, face to face or online depending on the country. Figures are Pew's published toplines. Citation: "Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth." Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (September 17, 2026) https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/09/17/globally-more-people-expect-ai-to-cause-job-loss-than-growth/ Earlier global wave: "How People Around the World View AI." Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (October 15, 2025) https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/how-people-around-the-world-view-ai/

## Source

Pew Research Center: Spring Global Attitudes Surveys (2025, 2026) and American Trends Panel (U.S., 2021–2026). Pew is not responsible for Palanor's analysis.