皮尤调查：仅8%美国成年人用AI聊天机器人查2026年中期选举信息

一项关于选举信息获取的调查

皮尤研究中心在2026年10月12日至18日调查了5273名美国成年人，想弄清在中期选举前，人们是否以及如何用聊天机器人查找选举信息。受访者全部来自该中心的American Trends Panel，调查称其代表美国成年人口整体。

少数使用者，用途集中在候选人

约一成成年人（8%）表示今年用AI聊天机器人查找选举相关信息。在使用者中，了解候选人在议题上的立场最常见（76%），其次是核实从其他渠道听到或读到的候选人及议题信息是否准确（71%），了解候选人生平与职业经历占65%。寻求投票选择建议、查询选民登记或投票点及邮寄投票信息各占40%。

年龄差异与使用背景

报告指出，不同人群用聊天机器人查选举信息的比例，大体与该群体整体使用聊天机器人的情况平行。50岁以下成年人中11%这样使用，50岁及以上为4%。文章同时提到，近年使用ChatGPT、Copilot和Gemini等AI聊天机器人完成各类任务的美国人明显增加，目前约半数美国成年人会在不同任务中使用它们。这些数字描述的是使用行为，并不说明聊天机器人提供的信息是否准确或是否影响投票决定。

About this research

We did this survey to understand whether and how Americans are using chatbots to find election-related information ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Why did we do this?

Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers understand important topics. We have studied Americans’ views of politics for decades, and we’ve also explored their views of artificial intelligence and chatbots in recent years.

Learn more about Pew Research Center and our politics research.

How did we do this?

We surveyed 5,273 U.S. adults from Oct. 12 to 18, 2026. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel. The survey represents the views of the full U.S. adult population.

Here are the survey questions used for this analysis, the detailed responses and the survey methodology.

Americans’ use of artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini has increased substantially in recent years. Today, about half of U.S. adults use them for various tasks. But, as the midterm elections approach, few people say are using these tools to find information about the 2026 elections.

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% who say they are using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to find out information related to the 2026 elections	8

Among those who are using AI chatbots for 2026 election information, % who are using them to find …
Information about where the candidates stand on the issues	76
Information on the accuracy of things they have heard or read in other places about the candidates or issues in the elections	71
Information about the candidates’ lives and careers	65
Suggestions for how to make their vote choices	40
Information on how to register to vote or check their registration, find their polling place or vote by mail	40

About one-in-ten adults (8%) say they are using AI chatbots to find election-related information this year, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 5,273 adults conducted from Oct. 12 to 18, 2026.

Among those who use chatbots, searching for information is at the top of the list of ways they are using them. For people who are using chatbots for the election this fall, most have specifically done so to get information about:

Where the candidates stand on the issues (76%)
The accuracy of things they have heard or read elsewhere about the candidates or issues (71%)
The candidates’ lives and careers (65%)

Smaller shares say they are using chatbots for suggestions about how to make their vote choices (40%) or to find information on voter registration, polling places or voting by mail (40%).

Use of chatbots for election information by different demographic groups largely parallels whether and how those groups use chatbots at all. For instance, adults under age 50 are more likely than those 50 and older to use chatbots generally. Similarly, 11% of those under 50 are using chatbots for election information, compared with 4% of those 50 and older.

Note: Here are the survey questions used for this analysis, the detailed responses and the survey methodology.

Ted Van Green is a research analyst focusing on U.S. politics and policy at Pew Research Center.