AI experts feel pretty good from the future of their field. Most Americans are not.
Recent report at Pew Research Center Released last week It shows a keen division into how artificial intelligence is perceived by people building it compared to people living with him. The survey, which includes the answers of over 1,000 AI experts and over 5,000 adults in the US, reveals the growing gap in optimism: experts hope while society is restless, distrustful and more and more restless.
About three quarters of AI experts believe that technology will benefit them in person. Only a quarter of the audience says the same. Experts believe that artificial intelligence improves work; Public opinion believes that he will take them. Even the basic trust in the system is broken: more than half of both groups say that they want more control over how AI is used in their lives, and most claim that they do not trust government or private companies to regulate it responsibly.
This makes sense when you look at how difficult the US government has failed in basic technology regulations. Congress loves to pull vast technical directors to theater auditions, in which legislators rummage in questions about section 230, which sound as if it was written by someone who has just discovered the internet yesterday.
Few Americans think they have any agency in the future managed by AI.
“It seems that when you look at these … congress hearings, they don’t understand it at all. I don’t know if I believe that they will be able to introduce enough experts to understand it enough to regulate it, but I think it’s very important,” said one of the academic experts in the report.
Skepticism of society regarding the regulation of AI exists next to the extremely ambitious claims of technology leaders about the future potential of artificial intelligence. Altman itself, the general director of Opeli, said he Expecting We can see “The first AI agents” join the labor force “and materially change the production of companies” in 2025. It seems that they also appear in data: few Americans believe that they have any agency in the future directed by AI. Almost 60 percent of adults in the USA claims that he has little control over whether AI is used in their lives. This number is not much better among experts.
There are also sex divisions. AI male experts are much more exposed than women say that they feel positive and personally excited about artificial intelligence. And when it comes to representation, both experts and society agree that the AI project reflects the prospects of white men much more than women and black or Latin communities. The problem with diversity is not just who builds models – it is baked in how people experience technology.
While older generations are debating the potential of AI, the gene with him is already alive with him. A separate study published this week by Gallup and Walton Family Foundation showed that the Gen Z is strongly involved in AI tools, such as ChatgPT or Copilot – a 79 -percentage report from them and almost half does it every week. But that doesn’t mean they trust it. In fact, the gene gene is more likely that AI makes them feel restless (41 percent) than excited (36 percent). Only 27 percent say they feel full of hope.
“They did not reach the point where they feel that the benefits exceed the risk.”
“The Gen Z, they do not trust the government, do not trust large technology companies, do not trust news,” said Zach Hrynowski, author of the Gallup report The Verge.
The gene with artificial intelligence will shape their future work and science, but carefully on its effects. Almost half believe that AI will harm their “critical thinking ability”. And although most believe that artificial intelligence can lend a hand them at work and learn more effectively, only a third of the gene employees will trust to work with AI and by human production.
Schools and jobs also lend a hand little. Most students of the gene say that their schools lack clear principles of artificial intelligence, and more than half of the Gene employees will report the same about their employers. But research shows that when institutions have clear AI rules, juvenile people apply tools more often, trust them and feel prepared for the future.
Ai can develop rapidly, but trust remains behind. Systems become smarter, but people are skeptical – especially those who will have to live with it for the longest.
“They did not reach the point where they feel that the benefits exceed the risk,” said Hrynowski.