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# 51% of Americans aged 65 and over say federal AI regulation will not go far enough, the most of any group
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/federal-ai-regulation-views-by-demographic-group/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:43:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:03:56.000Z
- Description: 41% of US adults say federal AI regulation will not go far enough and 27% that it will go too far. Concern that it will not go far enough peaks at 51% among those aged 65 and over.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, Public Opinion on AI, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-opinion, #country-us

51%

of US adults aged 65 and over say federal AI regulation will not go far enough, against 41% of all adults and 38% of those aged 18–29

Will not go far enough

65+51%

All adults41%

18–2938%

## What the chart shows

In the CHIP50 survey of 2025, 41% of US adults said federal regulation of AI will not go far enough, 27% that it will go too far and 33% were not sure. People aged 65 and over were the most likely to say it will not go far enough (51%) and the least likely to say it will go too far (16%).

Education made a difference: 46% of college graduates said regulation will not go far enough, against 34% of those with a high school education or less. Democrats (45%) were more likely than Republicans (40%) to say so. Black respondents were the only group more likely to say regulation will go too far (34%) than not far enough (32%).

## Key numbers

| Measure                             | Value     |
| ----------------------------------- | --------- |
| Aged 65+, not far enough            | 51%       |
| All adults, not far enough          | 41%       |
| All adults, too far                 | 27%       |
| College+, not far enough            | 46%       |
| High school or less, not far enough | 34%       |
| Black, too far / not far enough     | 34% / 32% |

## How to read it

- CHIP50 (Civic Health and Institutions Project) survey of US adults, 2025\. Groups overlap: each respondent appears in one group per category (gender, race, age, income, education, area, party).
- Shares are rounded, so rows add up to between 99% and 101%.
- The CSV stores income bands with HTML-encoded dollar signs; they are shown here as $30K–$69,999 and so on.

**Source:** [CHIP50](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#chip50), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 9.3.6: *Attitude toward AI federal regulation in the US by demographic group, 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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