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# 52% across 21 countries are excited about using AI for companionship; the US is lowest at 25%
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/excitement-about-ai-companionship-by-country/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:56:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:03:55.000Z
- Description: 52% of adults across 21 countries say they are at least somewhat excited about using AI for companionship. India (83%) and Nigeria (82%) are highest; the US is lowest at 25%, behind Canada (33%).
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, Public Opinion on AI, Generative AI, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-opinion, #topic-generative-ai

25%

Share of US adults at least somewhat excited about using AI for companionship (4% extremely, 5% very, 16% somewhat), the lowest of 21 countries; average 52%

United States

Extremely excited4%

Very excited5%

Somewhat excited16%

## What the chart shows

In an Ipsos survey for Google, 52% of adults on average across 21 countries said they were at least somewhat excited about using AI for companionship: 10% extremely, 16% very and 26% somewhat. Excitement is highest in India (83%), Nigeria (82%) and the UAE (78%), where more than a fifth are extremely excited.

It is lowest in the United States (25%), Canada (33%) and France (38%). Japan has the fewest extremely excited respondents (2%), though 42% there are at least somewhat excited.

## Key numbers

| Measure                                         | Value |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ----- |
| Global average, at least somewhat excited (sum) | 52%   |
| India, at least somewhat excited (sum)          | 83%   |
| Nigeria, extremely excited                      | 29%   |
| United States, at least somewhat excited (sum)  | 25%   |
| United States, extremely excited                | 4%    |
| Japan, extremely excited                        | 2%    |

## How to read it

- Survey by Ipsos for Google, published 2026\. The answers ‘not that excited’, ‘not excited at all’ and ‘don’t know’ are not in the data file, so bars show only the excited shares.
- The AI Index highlights give 42% for the United States; the data file and the report’s chart show 25% (4% + 5% + 16%), which we use.
- The AI Index text reports that 36% of Americans and 34% of Canadians were ‘not excited at all’, and 18% in Japan answered ‘don’t know’; these answers are not in the data file.

**Source:** [Ipsos and Google](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ipsos-google-ai-survey), 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 9.2.10: *Excitement about using AI for companionship*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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