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What percentage of American adults would trust health information from AI tools like ChatGPT a great deal or quite a lot?

17.6% of American adults would trust health information from AI tools like ChatGPT a great deal or quite a lot - about 18 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.

Where this number comes from

Survey

Household Pulse Survey

What it measured

HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item HLTHTRUST_AI (“In general, how much would you trust information about health or medical topics from AI tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Claude?”), counting responses 1=A great deal, 2=Quite a lot, as a share of adults who answered (13.9% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table health5a. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 11,443.

Population

U.S. adults aged 18 and over

Year

2026

95% confidence interval

15.48% to 19.72% (derived from the published standard error)

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