I recently found a Swiss AI survey that indicates that many people do care about AI. [This is only very weak evidence against your thesis, but might still interest you 🙂.]
The question: “Do you fear the emergence of an “artificial super-intelligence”, and that robots will take power over humans?”
From the general population, 11% responded “Yes, very”, and 37% responded “Yes, a bit”. So, half of the respondents (that expressed any sentiment) were at least somewhat worried.
The ‘opinion leaders’ however are much less concerned. Only 2% have a lot of fear and 23% have a bit of fear.
But the same study also found that only 41% of respondents from the general population placed AI becoming more intelligent than humans into the ‘first 3 risks of concern’ out of a choice of 5 risks. Only for 12% of respondents was it the biggest concern. ‘Opinion leaders’ were again more optimistic – only 5% of them thought AI intelligence surpassing human intelligence was the biggest concern.
I recently found a Swiss AI survey that indicates that many people do care about AI.
[This is only very weak evidence against your thesis, but might still interest you 🙂.]
The question:
“Do you fear the emergence of an “artificial super-intelligence”, and that robots will take power over humans?”
From the general population, 11% responded “Yes, very”, and 37% responded “Yes, a bit”.
So, half of the respondents (that expressed any sentiment) were at least somewhat worried.
The ‘opinion leaders’ however are much less concerned. Only 2% have a lot of fear and 23% have a bit of fear.
These are interesting findings! Be interesting to see if these kind of results are similar elsewhere.
But the same study also found that only 41% of respondents from the general population placed AI becoming more intelligent than humans into the ‘first 3 risks of concern’ out of a choice of 5 risks.
Only for 12% of respondents was it the biggest concern. ‘Opinion leaders’ were again more optimistic – only 5% of them thought AI intelligence surpassing human intelligence was the biggest concern.