Seventy-one percent of Americans are worried that AI will put vast swaths of the workforce permanently out of a job. Sixty-seven percent believe AI will have consequences beyond human control. Forty-seven percent say AI is bad for humanity, while less than a third disagree. Seventy-seven percent are concerned about political chaos from foreign or domestic rivals using AI. Sixty-one percent worry about AI-generated disinformation, including fabricated videos. Executives and companies are already automating roles and publicly boasting about replacing workers with AI agents. Energy and regulation concerns also appear alongside rapid investment flows into AI.
AI is dominating the economy and at the top of policy agendas. Ads for it are everywhere. Your favorite artist is probably experimenting with it. And as hundreds of billions of dollars get poured into the tech, it can feel like the whole world is holding its breath for when it somehow becomes superintelligent and magically ushers us into a utopic age.
But if you're feeling anxious about AI, you're not alone. An overwhelming 71 percent of Americans are worried that AI will put vast swaths of the workforce permanently out of a job, according to a new Reuters poll conducted with the firm Ipsos - a proportion that stands in stunning contrast to the absurd levels of hype being blasted out of the AI industry.
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