Worker Automation Desire Statistics (2025)

From a survey of 1,500 U.S. workers across 104 occupations (WORKBank, January–May 2025):

• 46.1% of tasks: workers express positive attitude toward AI automation
• 69.38% of pro-automation responses cite “freeing up time for high-value work” as primary motivation
• 46.6% cite task repetitiveness
• 46.6% cite quality improvement potential
• 25.5% cite task stressfulness
• 28.0% of workers expressed fears/concerns about AI when asked how they envision using it

Among those with concerns:

• 45.0% lack trust in AI accuracy, reliability, or capability
• 23.0% fear job replacement
• 16.3% cite absence of human qualities in AI

Related: 07-molecule—automation-desire-pattern, 07-atom—human-agency-scale