Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing “too fast,” while 27% say its development has been “about right” and only 8% say it’s moving “too slow.”
The risk that powerful AI models could evade human control and hurt humanity, once the stuff of science fiction, has been emerging as a more pressing concern. Even leaders of the companies that are developing frontier AI models are calling for a slowdown so that government regulation can catch up. President Donald Trump has pushed back against slowing down AI development because of concerns that China will gain an advantage with the technology. Data centers powering AI projects have also taken a prominent role in major political races as the midterm elections approach.
AI isn’t developing too fast. The AI industry is taking over computing too fast; and it’s on purpose to wrest control from everyone else.
This. The industry is ruining everything. I get easier questionably accurate internet searches at the cost of a collapsing environment and removal of ownership of computer hardware. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Mirror (arc), full poll results (arc)
Most people don’t seem to have even a vague idea of how it works though. Typically American: fear without thought.
You started from a good place and then instantly stepped on a rake
Yes, thank you both for proving my point. Its good for people to be scared of things they refuse to understand or are only supplied propaganda for. And to not at all blame the people who are committing the crimes with said technology. I’m an American; that was a simple gotcha. Though certainly the entire world has a fascism problem, we’re ahead for the developed world. This is why I lurk: you guys are dolts.
PLEASE keep reminding me lemmy was founded by tankies.
Yes, only Americans are stupid enough to fear the unknown. Also you totally need to fully understand how AI works to think it’s concerning. So many good points you’re making
