AI & Trust Keynote Speaker
Not Hype. Not Fear. The Truth.
Matt Carmichael delivers AI keynotes grounded in real consumer behavior data — not headlines or speculation. He explains why the U.S. is a global outlier in AI skepticism, what that means for your organization, and exactly what it takes to earn the trust that makes AI succeed.
// The Talk
Most AI keynotes tell one of two stories: AI is going to change everything (breathless excitement) or AI is going to break everything (breathless fear). Matt Carmichael tells a third story — the one rooted in how real people actually feel about AI, right now, and what that means for organizations trying to adopt it.
Drawing from the Ipsos Global AI Monitor — one of the world's most comprehensive ongoing studies of AI attitudes across dozens of markets — Matt reveals the nuanced, complicated, deeply human reality of AI adoption. He shows why the U.S. stands apart from most of the world in its skepticism, why that matters, and what it means for leaders trying to bring AI into their organizations, products, and brands.
AI must fulfill a human need and earn trust to truly succeed. Understanding the wonder and the worry — not just the technology — is how organizations get this right.
This is not a "how AI works" talk. It's a talk about the human side of AI — the values, fears, expectations, and conditions of trust that will determine which AI applications thrive and which ones fail.
// Audience Takeaways
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Where consumers stand on AI — by country, generation, and use case — based on the Ipsos Global AI Monitor, not pundit opinion
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America's AI skepticism is statistically unusual compared to the rest of the world — and understanding why matters for strategy
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The specific conditions — transparency, control, demonstrated benefit — that shift people from resistant to willing to engaged
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What it takes to build an organizational culture and consumer relationship that can actually absorb and benefit from AI
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Which AI applications earn trust (they solve a real problem with clear benefit) vs. which ones generate resistance (they serve the company more than the customer)
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How Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z feel differently about AI — and what that means for workforce, product, and marketing strategy
// Best Fit
// Why Matt for AI & Trust
Matt oversees Ipsos's ongoing study of AI attitudes across markets — one of the world's most comprehensive AI sentiment datasets. Every keynote draws from current data.
As lead author of Ipsos Global Trends (50 markets), Matt doesn't just describe U.S. AI attitudes — he contextualizes them against global patterns most speakers never see.
Matt's background is consumer behavior and foresight — not computer science. He explains AI adoption as a human story: values, trust, fear, and the conditions under which people change.
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