The poll they cite shows this is clearly not unique: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/concern-and-ex.... The US is (just barely) at the top, but no country is anywhere close to "more excited than concerned", and several countries are basically equal to the US.
I live in America so that's my perspective, but I would be surprised if this article couldn't accurately describe a lot of other countries.
Every so often, local news websites in the UK publish articles highlighting behaviours that are supposedly uniquely characteristic of the area they're writing about, with headlines such as "Only in $city!" or "You'll know all about this if you come from $city!". Across the publications, they're all substantially the same normal human behaviours, just with $city and any mention of local landmarks changed, and photos replaced with local ones. People swallow it up and believe their group is unique.
This article seems to be doing the same sort of thing. Just one of the many forms of modern clickbait - it works.
The EU has strong worker protections and a robust social safety net. It’s not surprising to hear they are less antagonistic towards AI
In a separate research at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/trust-in-... , people found that low income countries have higher trust in AI.
I wonder about China. More generally, do countries deemed collectivist (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/collectiv...) and supportive of their government tend to lean towards AI?
> In countries like China (83%), Indonesia (80%), and Thailand (77%), strong majorities see AI products and services as more beneficial than harmful. In contrast, optimism remains far lower in places like Canada (40%), the United States (39%), and the Netherlands (36%).
This article almost feels like some kind of psychological manipulation: "Jeez Americans, can't you just get on board like the rest of the world?"