New Pew research shows striking differences between AI experts' views on AI and the general public's views. On jobs, 21% of the public rate AI's impact as positive, for AI experts, it's 73%. On the economy, the corresponding figures are 21% and 69%. One of the few areas of convergence? Few on either side (9% & 11%) think AI will be good for elections.
Another interesting area of convergence? AI experts and the public mostly agree about which types of jobs are at risk from AI. One of the few differences is in self-driving AI. The public mostly thinks trucker jobs are safe from AI, but the experts don't.
However, most of this polling reveal differences. Only 24% of the public think AI will personally benefit them. That figures is 76% for the AI experts. The big problem here? It's the AI experts, and their interests, in the driving seat when it comes to legislation around AI.
The AI industry who has the US administration in its pocket. Their latest suggestion is to ban AI regulation at the state level, and only allow it at the federal level (which, conveniently, they completely control).
Even if they succeed, it won't change the reality and public perception of AI, and it seems like it will store up conflict and clashes to come.
Pew Research – How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
As the US government bows to the AI industry and threatens to ban state-level AI regulation, new Pew research shows huge differences between the public & AI industry's views on AI's impact.
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PSA: don’t pay for AI products. If you want to use them there are plenty that are free to use and accomplish just as much. It’s crammed down our throats in products enough as it is.
That might be related: As researchers, we surveyed both the general public as well as academic AI experts on AIs impact on various topics, including job displacement, in the next decade.
Obviously, the absolute evaluations difference in terms of expectancy, perceived risks and benefits, as well as value assessments. More importantly, both groups had significantly different risks/benefit tradeoffs for forming their value judgments.Â
Might be interesting for some:Â https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01459
AI development is a privately-funded Manhattan Project being pushed by the US government to develop world changing/world ending AI tech. The US government can’t risk individual states passing laws that would derail our race to beat the Chinese to get to that AI superweapon first.
The AI industry and the government don’t give a shit if average people actually WANT to have AI or not, because achieving it has been deemed “too important” to not do, so it’s being rammed down our throat whether we want it or not and the government is helping.
New Pew research shows striking differences between bank robbers’ views on robbing banks and the general public’s views. On jobs, 21% of the public rate robing banks impact as positive, for bank robbers, it’s 73%.