{"schema":"https://tgoodfoundation.com/instrument/v1/observations","version":"1.1.0","as_of":"2026-10-20","count":16,"human":"https://tgoodfoundation.com/reading#sources","observations":[{"id":"obs_judgment_chatbot_use_pew_2025","indicator_id":"judgment_chatbot_use","value":34,"unit":"percent","population":"US adults","published":"2025-06-25","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"34% of U.S. adults have used ChatGPT, about double the share in 2023","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/25/34-of-us-adults-have-used-chatgpt-about-double-the-share-in-2023/","tier":1},"quote":"Today, 34% of U.S. adults say they have ever used ChatGPT, according to a Pew Research Center survey.","notes":"Panel asks ChatGPT or another chatbot; Pew measures ChatGPT specifically — a floor on broader chatbot use."},{"id":"obs_judgment_health_ai_use_pew_2026","indicator_id":"judgment_health_ai_use","value":20,"unit":"percent","population":"US adults","published":"2026-06-11","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"Search and work are the most common uses for chatbots, 1 in 10 use these tools for emotional support","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/chart/search-and-work-are-the-most-common-uses-for-chatbots-1-in-10-use-these-tools-for-emotional-support/","tier":1},"quote":"To get medical advice — 20%","notes":"Pew reports ever-use for medical advice among U.S. adults; panel asks at-least-monthly — treat as upper-bound load until a monthly cut publishes."},{"id":"obs_judgment_concern_thinking_pew_2025","indicator_id":"judgment_concern_thinking","value":53,"unit":"percent","population":"US adults","published":"2025-09-17","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/","tier":1},"quote":"53% say AI will worsen people’s ability to think creatively, compared with 16% who say it will improve this.","notes":"Closest national measure to ability-to-think concern; wording is think creatively."},{"id":"obs_childhood_schoolwork_pew_2025","indicator_id":"childhood_schoolwork","value":26,"unit":"percent","population":"US teens ages 13-17","published":"2025-01-15","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share in 2023","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/15/about-a-quarter-of-us-teens-have-used-chatgpt-for-schoolwork-double-the-share-in-2023/","tier":1},"quote":"The share of teens who say they use ChatGPT for their schoolwork has risen to 26%, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17.","notes":null},{"id":"obs_childhood_online_constantly_pew_2025","indicator_id":"childhood_online_constantly","value":40,"unit":"percent","population":"US teens ages 13-17","published":"2025-12-09","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/","tier":1},"quote":"Nearly all U.S. teens (97%) say they use the internet daily, including four-in-ten who say they are almost constantly online.","notes":null},{"id":"obs_childhood_parent_awareness_pew_2026","indicator_id":"childhood_parent_awareness","value":51,"unit":"percent","population":"US parents of teens ages 13-17","published":"2026-02-24","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"What parents say about their teen’s AI use","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/what-parents-say-about-their-teens-ai-use/","tier":1},"quote":"When asked about their own teen, 51% of parents say their teen uses chatbots, while 18% say they do not.","notes":"Perception needle: parent awareness of teen generative-AI use. Teens self-report 64% — the miss is the point."},{"id":"obs_work_ai_use_pew_2025","indicator_id":"work_ai_use","value":21,"unit":"percent","population":"US workers","published":"2025-10-06","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"About 1 in 5 U.S. workers now use AI in their job, up since last year","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/06/about-1-in-5-us-workers-now-use-ai-in-their-job-up-since-last-year/","tier":1},"quote":"Today, 21% of U.S. workers say at least some of their work is done with AI, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in September.","notes":null},{"id":"obs_work_early_career_stanford_2025","indicator_id":"work_early_career","value":-13,"unit":"percent_change","population":"US workers ages 22-25 in most AI-exposed occupations","published":"2025-08-26","source":{"publisher":"Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research","title":"Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence","url":"https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/canaries-coal-mine-six-facts-about-recent-employment-effects-artificial","tier":1},"quote":"We find that since the widespread adoption of generative AI, early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after controlling for firm-level shocks.","notes":"Signed relative employment change; negative = decline. Authors: Brynjolfsson, Chandar, Chen."},{"id":"obs_work_worry_pew_2025","indicator_id":"work_worry","value":52,"unit":"percent","population":"US workers","published":"2025-02-25","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"U.S. workers are more worried than hopeful about future AI use in the workplace","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2025/02/25/u-s-workers-are-more-worried-than-hopeful-about-future-ai-use-in-the-workplace/","tier":1},"quote":"About half of workers (52%) say they’re worried about the future impact of AI use in the workplace, and 32% think it will lead to fewer job opportunities for them in the long run, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.","notes":null},{"id":"obs_companion_teen_ever_csm_2025","indicator_id":"companion_teen_ever","value":72,"unit":"percent","population":"US teens ages 13-17","published":"2025-07-16","source":{"publisher":"Common Sense Media","title":"Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions","url":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/press-releases/nearly-3-in-4-teens-have-used-ai-companions-new-national-survey-finds","tier":2},"quote":"Seventy-two percent of teens have used AI companions at least once, and over half (52%) qualify as regular users who interact with these platforms at least a few times a month.","notes":null},{"id":"obs_companion_teen_regular_csm_2025","indicator_id":"companion_teen_regular","value":52,"unit":"percent","population":"US teens ages 13-17","published":"2025-07-16","source":{"publisher":"Common Sense Media","title":"Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions","url":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/press-releases/nearly-3-in-4-teens-have-used-ai-companions-new-national-survey-finds","tier":2},"quote":"Seventy-two percent of teens have used AI companions at least once, and over half (52%) qualify as regular users who interact with these platforms at least a few times a month.","notes":null},{"id":"obs_companion_teen_satisfying_csm_2025","indicator_id":"companion_teen_satisfying","value":31,"unit":"percent","population":"US teens ages 13-17","published":"2025-07-16","source":{"publisher":"Common Sense Media","title":"Talk, Trust and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions","url":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/talk-trust-and-trade-offs_2025_web.pdf","tier":2},"quote":"Thirty-one percent of teens find conversations with AI companions as satisfying or more satisfying than those with real-life friends (21% say about the same quality, and 10% say more satisfying).","notes":"Reported among teens surveyed; companion ever-use is 72%."},{"id":"obs_companion_adult_use_pew_2026","indicator_id":"companion_adult_use","value":10,"unit":"percent","population":"US adults","published":"2026-06-11","source":{"publisher":"Pew Research Center","title":"Search and work are the most common uses for chatbots, 1 in 10 use these tools for emotional support","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/chart/search-and-work-are-the-most-common-uses-for-chatbots-1-in-10-use-these-tools-for-emotional-support/","tier":1},"quote":"For emotional support or advice — 10%","notes":"Emotional support/advice is the closest national adult companionship measure; companionship alone is 4% in the same chart."},{"id":"obs_companion_state_laws_fpf_2026","indicator_id":"companion_state_laws","value":18,"unit":"count","population":"US states","published":"2026-09-01","source":{"publisher":"Future of Privacy Forum","title":"Regulating the Chatbot: U.S. Chatbot Regulations Report","url":"https://fpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FPF-U.S.-Chatbot-Regulations-Report-R3.pdf","tier":2},"quote":"Thirty seven states introduced 124 chatbot-related bills in 2026, with thirteen of those signed into law–bringing the total number of state chatbot laws enacted in 2025 and 2026 to eighteen","notes":"Count of enacted state chatbot laws 2025–2026; includes companion and minor-safety chatbot statutes."},{"id":"obs_home_agents_use_bain_2025","indicator_id":"home_agents_use","value":10,"unit":"percent","population":"US consumers","published":"2025-03-15","source":{"publisher":"Bain & Company","title":"Agentic AI Commerce Hinges on Consumer Trust","url":"https://www.bain.com/insights/agentic-ai-commerce-hinges-on-consumer-trust/","tier":2},"quote":"Just 10% said they have bought something using AI (in any form, such as via Perplexity Pro’s one-click feature)—mostly for small-ticket grocery items and household goods.","notes":"Proxy for letting an agent act (buying). Booking/email agent acts still thin in national polls."},{"id":"obs_home_agents_concern_checkout_2025","indicator_id":"home_agents_concern","value":52,"unit":"percent","population":"US consumers","published":"2025-11-01","source":{"publisher":"Checkout.com","title":"The $200 checkout: What consumers expect from agentic AI","url":"https://www.checkout.com/blog/what-consumers-expect-agentic-commerce","tier":2},"quote":"Overall, consumers feel ambivalent yet curious about using AI agents for shopping online. Half (48%) felt comfortable letting an AI agent make a purchase for them, with 52% not comfortable.","notes":null}]}