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# In Canada 64% say AI products make them nervous and 31% excited, the widest gap of 31 countries
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-excitement-vs-nervousness-by-country/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:56:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:03:42.000Z
- Description: Nervousness about AI products outweighs excitement in 15 of 31 countries, led by Canada (64% vs 31%), Australia and the US. In China, 84% are excited and 40% nervous.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, Public Opinion on AI, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-opinion

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Gap between the share of Canadians who say AI products make them nervous (64%) and the share excited (31%), 2025, the widest of 31 countries

Canada

Make me nervous64%

Make me excited31%

## What the chart shows

In 2025, 64% of Canadians said products and services using AI make them nervous and 31% said they make them excited, a gap of 33 percentage points, the widest of 31 countries. Australia (67% nervous, 40% excited) and the United States (64%, 38%) follow.

Nervousness outweighs excitement in 15 countries, mostly in Europe and North America; excitement leads in 15, and India is level at 65%. China (84% excited, 40% nervous) and Indonesia (80%, 43%) show the reverse pattern. On Ipsos’s global average the two are close: 53% excited, 52% nervous.

## Key numbers

| Measure                | Value |
| ---------------------- | ----- |
| Canada, nervous        | 64%   |
| Canada, excited        | 31%   |
| United States, nervous | 64%   |
| United States, excited | 38%   |
| China, excited         | 83.8% |
| China, nervous         | 40%   |

## How to read it

- Share agreeing with each statement, Ipsos AI Monitor 2025\. Countries are sorted by the share nervous. Data for China was provided to the AI Index by Ipsos separately.
- ‘Global average’ is Ipsos’s average across countries: 53.1% excited and 52.1% nervous.

**Source:** [Ipsos](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ipsos-ai-monitor), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 9.1.5: *Global opinions about products and services using AI by country, 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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