Monitor Digital Working Society—Brief report on the second wave of surveys: Increasing awareness and collegial support through AI

The brief report presents key findings from the second of four representative survey waves conducted as part of the Opinion Monitor Artificial Intelligence 3.0 research project. It is based on data collected from 1,651 German respondents (925 working, 726 non-working) in July 2025. The report places a particular focus on developments compared to the first survey at the beginning of 2025. Overall, attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) remain ambivalent among the population, but show slight shifts toward greater awareness, more differentiated assessments, and increasing acceptance, especially among working people. The latter report more frequent personal benefits from AI, while the perception of societal risks is cautiously positive. In the world of work, the affective attitude toward AI remains stable and positive, while individual cognitive assessments are developing moderately toward more positive assessments, for example, with regard to income, career opportunities, and skill requirements. Job insecurity remains low overall; general concerns about AI replacing human labor are declining slightly. At the same time, the professional use of AI is increasing, especially generative AI, and is expanding from routine tasks to more complex and creative ones. Overall, the results point to a gradual transition from uncertainty to a more experience-based engagement with AI, with AI increasingly being perceived as collegial support, although existing ambivalences have not been completely resolved.