AI Worry Share of AI Searches · Germany

## What this measures

Two baskets of German Google searches in Germany, compared in one request so they share a scale. The worried basket: KI Gefahren, Gefahren der KI, KI Risiken, KI ersetzt Jobs. The enthusiastic basket: KI Tools, KI lernen, beste KI. The value is the worried basket's share of the two combined, in percent.

## Why it matters

Surveys of AI attitudes come once a year. Searches move every week, so this shows between surveys whether worry is gaining on curiosity. It is one of the inputs to the AI Doomers vs. Accelerationists Current.

## How to read it

Higher means a larger part of AI-related searching is about danger and job loss rather than tools and learning. Read it as a trend within one country. Levels are comparable only between countries searching in the same language, because wording changes volume.

## What it does not say

It is not a poll: searching for AI dangers is not the same as believing AI is dangerous, and news events drive spikes. Weeks where the two baskets together are under 5 on Google's scale are left out, which drops most of 2021 and 2022, when neither was searched much. Latin America is not covered: Spanish and Portuguese danger wording has too little volume, and job wording also catches people looking for AI jobs.

## Method

Google Trends via SerpAPI, weekly interest over five years for the pair in one request. Palanor computes the share.

## Source

Google Trends, via SerpAPI. Share calculated by Palanor.