Professor Nicole Gillespie

But we find more, 62%, say they're worried about AI.

And quite a lot of people report both.

We also find that compared to our earlier surveys, we see a bit of a trend towards concern towards AI actually deepening over time.

So for example, we find that Australians' willingness to rely on AI and the way that they perceive the trustworthiness of AI systems has actually dropped somewhat.

And also worry is increasing, probably as people are seeing the impacts more.

Yeah, so look, compared to other countries, Australia is low on trust.

We're low on acceptance.

We're also low on adoption.

And that's an important part of the mix.

In particular, Australia ranks the lowest globally on the acceptance of AI.

So we're matched only by New Zealand.

So it's just like 49% of Australians that say they accept AI use compared to 72% globally.

So really quite significantly lower.

And compared to other countries who are also less optimistic about AI, we report less benefits.

It's only just over half of Australians that say that they're realising benefits from the use of AI, probably reflecting that lower adoption levels.

We also find, though, that our trust levels are similar to other advanced economies.

So even though we're a little bit lower, we're pretty much on par with other countries like Canada, the UK, Germany, France, for example.

but we're a lot lower than the emerging economies, particularly like China and India and some of the African countries.

Now, when we dig into this a little bit more, we also find that there's no real differences between people across countries when it comes to concerns about the negative impacts of AI.

And I think that's significant because it really does show there's quite a lot of global consensus.