Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends

By Baobao Zhang, Allan Dafoe. 2019

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This report presents a broad look at the American public’s attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and AI governance, based on findings from a nationally representative survey of 2,000 American adults. As the study of the public opinion toward AI is relatively new, we aimed for breadth over depth, with our questions touching on: workplace automation; attitudes regarding international cooperation; the public’s trust in various actors to develop and regulate AI; views about the importance and likely impact of different AI governance challenges; and historical and cross-national trends in public opinion regarding AI. Our results provide preliminary insights into the character of US public opinion regarding AI.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims (2020, background): “Indeed, studies [17], surveys [18], and trends in worker and community organizing [2] [3] make clear that large swaths of the public are concerned about the risks of AI development, and do not trust the organizations currently dominating such development to self-regulate effectively.”
The Roles of Personality Traits, AI Anxiety, and Demographic Factors in Attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence (2022, background): “Previous research had found that having a higher level of education increased the chances of having positive attitudes toward AI in general (Gnambs & Appel, 2019; Zhang & Dafoe, 2019).”
The General Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence Scale (GAAIS): Confirmatory Validation and Associations with Personality, Corporate Distrust, and General Trust (2022, background): “Finally, general education levels had no impact on attitudes towards AI, unlike in Zhang and Dafoe (2019).”
What is AI Literacy? Competencies and Design Considerations (2020, background): “Singularity/concern about harm to people: The idea of “the singularity”—or the time when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence [85]—has been popularized in science fiction, and many have concerns about AI intentionally causing harm to people [13,144].”