Practising Christians in the United States use artificial intelligence (AI) significantly more often than Americans overall. Researchers at Barna reached this conclusion after conducting a large-scale survey.

This was reported by the inVictory.

The survey involved 1,514 US adults. According to the findings, 15% of Americans said they use AI very often in everyday life, 16% said they use it often, and 29% said they use it occasionally.

The figures were significantly higher among practising Christians. One in four believers (26%) said they use artificial intelligence very often, a further 18% said they use it often, and 24% said they use it occasionally.

A similar pattern was observed in the use of artificial intelligence at work. AI is used very often by 21% of practising Christians, compared with only 12% of all US adults and 6% of pastors.

The researchers also found that believers and non-believers use AI for broadly the same purposes. The most common task is searching for specific information. More than 60% of respondents in both groups said they had used artificial intelligence for this purpose.

However, practising Christians are more likely to use AI in almost every area. The difference is especially pronounced in work with texts. More than 40% of believers said they had used artificial intelligence to write, edit, translate or summarise texts. Among all US adults, the figure is just over 30%.