"Contrary to expectations revealed in four surveys, cross-country data and six additional studies find that people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI,"
"people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI's execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes."
"When you don't really get what's going on under the hood, AI creating these things seems amazing, and that's when it can feel magical,"
Trust in artificial intelligence falls as people become more AI literate. AI companies portray the technology as a revolutionary inflection point that justifies large capital expenditures to operate resource-intensive models. Real-life users who gain familiarity often recognize that products such as ChatGPT operate as word-prediction algorithms rather than human-like sentient entities. Individuals with lower AI literacy tend to be more receptive, perceiving AI as magical and experiencing awe when AI performs tasks that seem uniquely human. Widespread use among students raises concerns that limited literacy will encourage reliance on AI as a crutch, undermining development of deeper reasoning, writing, and research skills.
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