1、March 2025Close encounters of the AI kind:The increasingly human-like way people are engaging with language modelsBY Lee Rainie Director,Imagining the Digital Future Center 1Close encounters of the AI kind:The increasingly human-like way people are engaging with language modelsKey datapoints in this

2、 survey52%of American adults now use AI large language models(LLMs)like ChatGPT,Gemini,Claude and Copilot51%of LLM users say their main activity on the tool is for personal,informal learning,twice as many as use LLMs for work purposes(24%);among workers,46%say their main purpose is personal and 32%s

3、ay their main purpose is for work65%of users have had spoken conversations involving back-and-forth interactions with an LLM,including 34%who regularly do this at least several times a week49%of LLM users think the models they use are smarter than they are76%of LLM users are satisfied with the perfo

4、rmance of LLMs,including 25%who are very satisfied54%say their use of LLMs has improved their productivity a lot/somewhat;42%say their use has improved their creativityHuman-like traits 39%say the main LLM they use shows the capacity to think and reason at least some of the time.32%say it seems to h

5、ave a sense of humor.25%say it acts like it makes moral judgments about right and wrong.24%say it seems like it expresses hope.17%say it seems to respond sarcastically.11%say it seems to express sadness.Darker impacts 50%of LLM users say they have felt lazy when they use LLMs.35%have felt they were

6、cheating.35%have felt frustrated or confused.33%have felt they were becoming too dependent on LLMs for answers rather than thinking through things themselves.23%say they made a significant mistake or bad decision by relying on information generated by LLMs.21%have felt manipulated by the model.Insig