The survey paints a different picture in the rest of the world, however. In Singapore, which had the highest portion of daily users in the study (46%), more than 80% of those aware about AI expect the tech to improve their everyday lives, and 77% think it’ll help the country. In China, where 35% of people report using AI daily, most people expect it to help the country. The story is similar in Israel.
The article’s title kind of cherry picks the results, which centers the survey around US interests. However large swathes of the world are very much pro-AI, which puts the prevailing anti-AI sentiment in the US at odds with global trends. It also highlights an interesting problem anti-AI advocates aren’t really exploring. It’s less so about some arms race between countries over the technology and more to do with a difference of global opinion. Even if efforts to slow down or stop AI progress in the US were successful, the desire to is not shared by our global neighbors.
Still, optimism about AI doesn’t necessarily appear to translate to trust in the tech’s accuracy. According to Gallup, people who use AI daily were generally more trusting of its results, especially in high-adoption countries like Singapore, Israel, and China, while less frequent users remain skeptical across the board. In the U.S., only 45% of daily users expressed that level of confidence. Altogether, only 36% (median) of the people surveyed said they trust AI’s results a lot.
It would be somewhat alarming if that wasn’t the case. If people who used it more trusted it less, that would indicate some dire faults in AI systems efficacy that could lead to major problems in the future.
Commissioned by Microsoft, the Gallup study currently has results from 37 countries, where researchers polled about 1,000 people in each country between April and July.
There are some data science tricks researchers use to make such a small sample size more representative, but even so 1,000 people is such an infinitesimally small sample size there isn’t much nuance to be had. Certainly the results are worth being moderately skeptical about. The article also doesn’t actually link to the actual poll which tells a somewhat different story.
It’s less so about some arms race between countries over the technology and more to do with a difference of global opinion.
Well, yeah, if you look at the data center build-out the reason for this is obvious. The US is destroying itself trying to build as many data centers as fast as possible, every other country is taking it slow and steady. People are reacting to their material conditions.
Results of surveys can easily be faked. Just ask 1200 people with suggestive questions then remove 200 answers you didn‘t like and say you asked 1000 people. :)
if you’re willing to lie why even bother with that, just make up the results wholesale. Polling companies don’t because their entire business relies on their reputation.
They’re only worried because someone told them to worry.
If they could think on their own, they wouldn’t be using AI in the first place.
Is AI causing the same effect on hiring in the rest of the world as it is in the US? I wonder if it causes less worry in other countries because those countries have better worker protections, and are not experiencing the same level of AI eating their jobs that we have here.
In general the economy is bad and big corpos, especially multinational US ones have been laying off people by the tens of thousands, so yeah, it’s everywhere and I don’t know that AI is really to blame.
Only 3/47 countries reported “net fears” of AI. US is the most negative. It could be about threat to people’s own wages, were low ones in their country, can see more opportunity for AI to improve their own opportunities, whereas high wage countries see it as replacement threat.
Well yeah, most of them are being forced to use it and see how utterly incompetent it is
I use it daily. They refused to hire me help for a decade, and I’m completing projects I needed to do 5 years ago at least to the level of a marginally competent assistant, which is a stark improvement over not getting done. I’m farming out all the BS, actually documenting changes.
That said, yeah, I’m scared AF it’s going to be used in places it doesn’t work well. Self-driving cars, Un-monitored software development, Artists, Wordsmiths. I’m scared AF it’s going to enable the CEO’s to release all their bad ideas without financial barriers and everything will just destroy itself.
Lastly, it’s driving enshitification. I was at a conference last week, there were no longer any feature disparities, Everyone copied whatever the company to the left did as quickly and as shittily as they could. They all do the same thing, They just half suck at 2/3 of the features.
No they aren’t.
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This is a hilarious brand-new mix of sarcastic and incoherent, I’ve never seen anything like it
