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Artificial Intelligence might be a useful tool to ease day-to-day tasks, but it is making most Americans anxious. However, AI builders have a completely different standpoint on building the tech.
A new report by Pew Research Center has highlighted a divide between people who work behind the scenes to make AI what it is and people who actually use it. The survey includes responses from over 1,000 AI experts and more than 5,000 US adults and shows a clear disparity in their opinions about the future of the tech. While builders are hopeful, users are distrustful, anxious and uneasy about the proliferation of artificial intelligence.
What AI experts think: They believe the technology will benefit them personally in the long run.
What users think: Only about a quarter of the surveyed people think AI will be useful to them.
What AI experts think: They think AI will enhance jobs and make them better.
What users think: The public thinks AI will take away jobs.
Trust in the system is severely lacking as more than half of the people in both groups want greater control over AI’s impact on their lives. Additionally, most of them are skeptical about the ability of both the government and private companies to regulate it properly.
An academic expert cited in the report said, “It seems like when you look at these … congressional hearings, they don’t understand it at all. I don’t know that I have faith that they would be able to bring on enough experts to understand it enough to regulate it, but I think it’s very important.”
Impact Shorts
More ShortsOpinions about AI are split between genders, too. The study found that male AI experts are far more excited about the revolution of it and expressed optimism in its rise than females. Meanwhile, both experts and the general public agree that AI development predominantly reflects the views of white men, with women and Black or Hispanic communities being underrepresented.
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