48%About 5 in 10of developers say they trust AI output when they can easily verify it; 6.6% trust it for many tasks including important work decisions
48% of developers say they trust AI output when they can easily verify it; 6.6% trust it for many tasks including important work decisions (Jun to Aug 2026, Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow Developer Survey)
SurveyChecked at source, 23 Oct 2026All sizesGlobalWeb and software development · AI tools
48% of developers say they trust AI output when they can easily verify it; 6.6% trust it for many tasks including important work decisions (Jun to Aug 2026).
48%
the latest figure (Jun to Aug 2026)
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type of source
Why you can trust it. Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow Developer Survey: survey, sampled survey with a published method. 30,903 valid responses from 169 countries, fielded 23 Jun to 5 Aug 2026; self-selected online survey. Each question has its own n.
48% of developers say they trust AI output when they can easily verify it; 6.6% trust it for many tasks including important work decisions
Data period
Jun to Aug 2026 (ends 5 Aug 2026)
Published by the source
6 Oct 2026
Who is counted
30,903 valid responses from 169 countries, fielded 23 Jun to 5 Aug 2026; self-selected online survey. Each question has its own n.
In the source's words
I trust it when I can easily verify the output | 6,872 | 48.0%
Checked at source
23 Oct 2026: Read on survey.stackoverflow.co 2026 results (Markdown edition of the AI data page). Question AITrust (new wording in 2026), n = 14,304. Not comparable with the 2025 trust question.
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Survey data under the Open Database Licence (ODbL 1.0). Self-selected online survey, mostly Stack Overflow users; not a random sample of all developers. Question wording changes between years.
Next expected update
31 Oct 2027 (Stack Overflow, yearly (2026 results 6 Oct 2026))
23 Oct 2026CorrectionWording corrected to match the source: removed 'only', the survey option does not say it
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Stack Overflow. (2026). 48% of developers say they trust AI output when they can easily verify it; 6.6% trust it for many tasks including important work decisions. Via digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/web-development/developers-trust-ai-only-when-verifiable
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"48% of developers say they trust AI output when they can easily verify it; 6.6% trust it for many tasks including important work decisions." Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Jun to Aug 2026. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/web-development/developers-trust-ai-only-when-verifiable.
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What is the latest figure for AI tools (Global)?
48% of developers say they trust AI output when they can easily verify it; 6.6% trust it for many tasks including important work decisions, for Jun to Aug 2026, according to Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow Developer Survey. We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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