Alec Tyson

A majority of Americans are more concerned about the risks associated with AI than they are excited about the possibilities.

Alec Tyson, a lead pollster at Ipsos, says in some other countries Ipsos surveyed, including the UAE, Nigeria, Brazil and India, it's the opposite.

Most people are excited.

Whereas in the U.S., the potential upsides are less clear.

David Deming at Harvard's Kennedy School says in these still early days of AI, it's not surprising that people who have less to begin with might feel they have more to gain.

and maybe less beneficial for people who are connected already and making good money in jobs that AI could potentially do either now or soon.

Paul Kudrowski at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy says even before AI, people in the U.S.

were feeling increasingly pessimistic about the economy and their future prospects.

Kudrowski says both the optimism and the wariness around AI are warranted.

And Kudrowski says that's a big part of why there is so much excitement about AI in other countries.

I'm Samantha Fields for Marketplace.