A Gallup survey spanning 37 countries and more than 37,000 respondents has revealed that humanity's relationship with artificial intelligence is not uniform — most of the world greets the technology with curiosity and hope, while Western nations stand apart in their anxiety. The divide maps closely onto wealth and development, raising a quiet but consequential question: whether the fears shaping policy in Europe and North America reflect a universal human reckoning, or simply the particular unease of those closest to the machine. How a civilization chooses to meet a transformative technology m