[...]How Americans view AI’s impactHow Americans view AI’s impact
New technology is often met with a degree of curiosity as well as skepticism. As more Americans incorporate AI into their lives, there are broad concerns about its impact, its speed and whether the government can properly regulate it.
In fact, more Americans predict AI will be bad rather than good for society.** Four-in-ten U.S. adults say AI will have a negative impact on society over the next 20 years. Far fewer believe its impact will be positive.
Adults’ views about AI’s potential impact on their own lives also tilt negative, though less dramatically. While 31% expect AI to have a negative effect on them personally over the next two decades, about a quarter believe it will have a positive impact.
Still, about three-in-ten believe AI will have an equally positive and negative effect on society and on them. And roughly one-in-ten or more say they are unsure about either impact.
...read more at pewresearch.org
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People are mostly just scared of change and better at seeing how things might go badly than how they could go well.
this?
I think that could use some education. For most people the correct answer is "will not make much difference", because they're already fully compromised. Zuck knows what you're going to have for dinner next week before you even started thinking about it.
Interesting that people think it will negatively impact society but not them as much.