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How do Americans feel about AI?

Marketplace Tech

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Technology, News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We’re quickly coming up on one year since ChatGPT was released to the public. In that time, it and other generative AI tools have placed artificial intelligence front and center in a larger discussion about the future of work, art, ethics and pretty much everything else. So, what do Americans think about AI now? The upshot is that many of you are checking the “somewhat concerned” and “mostly concerned” boxes on this one. And it seems like Democrats and Republicans are generally on the same page regarding the future of AI. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali discussed the question with Ryan Heath, global tech correspondent for Axios, who recently combed through several surveys to get a sense of the country’s current sentiment toward AI.

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0:00.0

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Listen to Skin in the Game and more from the Marketplace Morning Report wherever you get your

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podcasts. What Americans think of artificial intelligence, now that it's everywhere.

0:28.2

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Lily Dramalli.

0:42.7

We're quickly coming up on one year since ChatGPT was released to the public. It and other

0:48.9

generative AI tools have placed artificial intelligence front and center in a larger public

0:54.3

discussion about the future of work, art, ethics, and everything else. So what do Americans think

1:02.1

about AI now? The upshot is there are a lot of you checking the somewhat and mostly concerned

1:08.3

boxes on this one and it seems like Democrats and Republicans are generally on the same page

1:13.6

on the future of AI. That's according to Ryan Heath, Global Tech correspondent for Axios,

1:19.1

we recently combed through several surveys to get a sense of the country's current sentiment

1:24.3

towards AI. Across a number of surveys that have happened over the last three or four months,

1:30.2

Democrats and Republicans show very consistent and skeptical attitudes towards a lot of AI.

1:36.3

So that's really unusual that we have a situation where Democrats and Republicans basically agree,

1:42.1

even if perhaps they have different motivations for their fears and their concerns,

1:47.2

and a situation where many people are skeptical of tech companies and how they're handling AI,

1:54.4

which leads to an unusual level of openness, let's say, around having the government involved

2:01.2

in this topic. That's really interesting. So this is not all that of a partisan issue.

2:07.3

Talk us through where some of the dividing lines do lie. Are these differences of opinion on AI?

2:12.7

Are they falling mostly along generational lines? That is absolutely top of the list,

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