Fox News Poll: Top reactions to AI? Voters say ‘harmful’ and ‘afraid’
Most voters suppose artificial intelligence expertise will change the way in which we reside within the U.S. within the subsequent few years. Whether that may be a good factor or dangerous stays to be seen.
In the most recent Fox News national survey, voters have been requested their principal reactions — with out the help choices — when they give thought to synthetic intelligence.
Most usually, the response was unfavourable, with the highest mentions being afraid and harmful (16%). Others suppose it’s typically a nasty concept (11%) or they will’t belief it (8%).
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Voters reveal their first reactions to synthetic intelligence (Fox News)
There are optimistic sentiments as properly, albeit in smaller numbers. Voters say AI is modern (7%), and they’re impressed or excited (6%) or cautiously optimistic (5%) about it.
Voters react to synthetic intelligence (Fox News)
Seven p.c say AI confuses them, 6% suppose of robots, 6% have blended emotions and 4% really feel it wants extra analysis.
Among most demographic teams, the highest response is afraid or harmful, particularly for ladies, Gen Xers and Republicans.
“The power of AI and the speed of its development clearly weighs on the minds of many,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the Fox News Poll together with Democrat Chris Anderson. “We’re not quite at the ‘red pill, blue pill’ stage like Neo, but we are worried about where all this is headed.”
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A customer watches a man-made Intelligence signal on an animated display screen on the Mobile World Congress, telecom business’s greatest annual gathering, in Barcelona. (Josep Lago/AFP through Getty Images)
In a weblog publish revealed Monday, OpenAI leaders wrote, “It’s conceivable that, within the next ten years, AI systems will exceed expert skill level in most domains and carry out as much productive activity as one of today’s largest corporations.”
Still, simply 4% of voters say AI makes them suppose it’s a risk to jobs.
An overwhelming majority agree synthetic intelligence will change the way in which we reside within the U.S., and it’ll be within the subsequent few years (86%).
Artificial intelligence was the subject of a brand new Fox News Poll (Fox News)
Forty-three p.c really feel it is going to change loads whereas one other 43% say just a few. Twelve p.c consider it received’t change a lot (9%) if in any respect (3%).
Over half of voters are involved about artificial intelligence technology (56%), which lands it in eleventh place (and tied with local weather change) amongst an inventory of 15 issues. Women, nonwhite voters and voters over age 65 are amongst these most involved whereas males, White voters and voters beneath age 35 are the least frightened.
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Respondents weigh in on synthetic intelligence (Fox News)
So who’s utilizing synthetic intelligence expertise like ChatGPT?
1 / 4 of voters total say they’ve used it, and 74% say they haven’t.
A Fox News Poll on synthetic intelligence (Fox News)
Voters beneath age 35 (44%), males (30%), Hispanic voters (33%), and Democrats (28%) are extra probably than voters over age 65 (9%), ladies (19%), Black voters (21%), White voters (22%), and Republicans (20%) to have used the expertise.
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Conducted May 19-22, 2023, beneath the joint course of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News Poll contains interviews with 1,001 registered voters nationwide randomly chosen from a voter file who spoke with reside interviewers on landline telephones and cellphones. The complete pattern has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three proportion factors.