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Only 6% think it would be a good idea and 75% think it's a bad idea.

I'm curious to see how this one changes over time too.

AI existential risk also doesn't seem to have become politically polarized yet.

Two-thirds of Americans don't associate AIX risk with any particular political party, and the remaining third is split exactly in half on whether preventing AIX risk feels like a democratic or republican issue.

If we plot this data, we obtain this unusual shape that science has yet to find a name for.

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As for specific risks from AI, Americans are most worried about misinformation and deepfakes, 70%, followed by fraud and cybercrime, 66%, and privacy and surveillance, 59%.

Surprisingly, people are roughly as worried about losing control of AI, 57%, as their job loss and lower wages, 56%.

I would have thought that job loss would feel very near at hand, whereas loss of control would be a very weird abstract idea to people.

There's a huge drop-off from there to the next biggest worries.

Military use, 37%, mental health, 35%, environmental impact, 38%, bias, 36%, and inequality, 36%.

My guess is this is because misinformation and deepfakes feel very visceral.

Fake news is a widespread idea, and you don't have to be an AI connoisseur to notice that large sections of the internet are now filled with AI-generated slop.

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My favorite response was a shockingly accurate description of how hopeless it would be to fight back against superhuman AI.

How do you hide from a robot that's more intelligent than humans and can see through walls etc.?

You can't hide.

End quote.

Me too, buddy.

Me too.