"According to one recent Economist/YouGov poll, a staggering 70 percent of Americans think that AI is "moving too fast," and about 64 percent believe it's unlikely that the general population will ever reap future economic benefits of the tech."
"Back in January, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lamented on a podcast that the AI backlash has been "extremely hurtful," blaming pushback on "doomers" pushing a negative "narrative" of AI. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman observed in an X post last fall that there are "so many cynics," and that it "cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming.""
""In previous conversations with Axios, AI executives at multiple frontier AI labs were surprised by the negative opinions," Mills writes. "They see AI as just as inevitable as the rise of the internet.""
"And some, apparently, are in outright denial, with Superhuman Mail CEO Rahul Vohra - whose company is currently facing a class action lawsuit over an "expert" editing feature that plundered the likenesses of countless journalists, scientists, and famous dead people without their consent - that Superhuman doesn't "really see" the negative polling."
A large share of Americans report that AI is moving too fast and that most people will not benefit economically from the technology. Corporate excitement and product integration continue, including AI-washing tied to layoffs and adding AI features across offerings. Several AI executives express surprise at public resistance, describing backlash as harmful, attributing criticism to negative narratives, and reacting to claims that AI is underwhelming. Private conversations among frontier AI labs reportedly show similar bafflement, with executives treating AI adoption as inevitable like the internet. Some leaders also appear to discount negative polling, even amid controversies involving AI-based editing features that used people’s likenesses without consent.
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