Public Perspectives on AI Governance: A Survey of Working Adults in California, Illinois, and New York

This report presents findings from a March 2025 survey examining public attitudes toward specific artificial intelligence (AI) policy objectives among working-class adults in three US states: California, Illinois, and New York. The survey collected responses from 300 participants, measuring their degree of support for 18 specific AI regulatory proposals. A majority of respondents expressed support for 17 of the 18 proposals with 75% of all responses indicating "support" or "strong support" for the policy objectives (80% and 67% for liberal- and conservative-leaning respondents respectively). Respondents had the highest level of average support (91%) for content-labeling measures and the lowest average support (38%) for proposals to slow the overall pace of AI development.