David Sachs

Well, in China, AI optimism was 83%.

So 83% of the population feels that's being more beneficial than harmful.

That number in the United States is only 39%.

So for some reason, people in China are more optimistic about AI than in the United States.

And you generally see this, that Asian countries are very high on AI optimism and the Western countries are lower.

And I think it's an interesting or open question about why this is.

I think there's a few possible explanations for it.

I think that, first of all, the media tends to focus on the doom and gloom stories with AI.

The fear.

The fears.

And we can talk about some of those fears and whether we think they're real.

But I think the media has a lot to do with it.

I think that...

The way that Hollywood has portrayed AI over the decades, whether it's The Terminator or 2001, has portrayed this dystopian view of the future.

And I think that plays into people's thinking.

And then frankly, I would say that part of the fault lies with

our tech leaders who haven't necessarily done a great job describing the benefits of AI.

In fact, when they're talking about AI eliminating 50% of knowledge workers, that doesn't sound like a very utopian scenario.

That sounds dystopian to most people.

And so I do think that unintentionally, some of our tech leaders have played into this AI pessimism.