Few Americans Think AI Will Do More Good Than Harm

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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4.6 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Galen Druke and Nate Silver open up the mailbag and answer listener questions about politics and polling. They cover American skepticism of artificial intelligence — according to one poll, only 9 percent of Americans say it will do more good than harm to society — and consider what to make of former president Donald Trump’s gains on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in early Republican presidential primary polling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Have you looked yourself up on chat GBT?
0:33.0	I don't want to.
0:34.0	Wait, you haven't entered, like, who is Nate Silver?
0:37.0	No, I want to do that.
0:38.0	Should we do it right now?
0:39.0	No, don't do that.
0:40.0	I asked chat GBT who I was and it made up a whole crock of s***.
0:55.0	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.
0:58.0	I'm Galen Druke.
0:59.0	I'm Nate Silver.
1:01.0	And this is a mailbag.
1:03.0	There's no model to talk about.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:06.0	Should we say it?
1:07.0	Should we do it anyway just for the rush?
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