A new poll by the Pew Research Center has found that Americans are getting extremely fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives.
A whopping 53 percent of just over 5,000 US adults polled in June think that AI will “worsen people’s ability to think creatively.” Fifty percent say AI will deteriorate our ability to form meaningful relationships, while only five percent believe the reverse.
While 29 percent of respondents said they believe AI will make people better problem-solvers, 38 percent said it could worsen our ability to solve problems.
The poll highlights a growing distrust and disillusionment with AI. Average Americans are concerned about how AI tools could stifle human creativity, as the industry continues to celebrate the automation of human labor as a cost-cutting measure.
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Any day now the bubble will burst and we will move onto the next hype train.
Last time it was ‘The Cloud’, now it’s ‘AI’, I wonder what useless ongoing payment bullshit they will try to sell us next.
Did the cloud bubble ever burst though?
It didn’t ‘burst’ so much as deflate as businesses realised paying $200,000 upfront for their own servers instead of $20,000 every month was better in the long run
The cloud still has a clear and defined use case for a lot of tangible things, but AI is just nebulous ‘it will improve productivity’ claims with no substance
It never burst explosively, just kinda slowly deflated into being normal and useful. AI won’t do that; too much money (HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!) has been pumped in too quickly for anything other than an explosively catastrophic collapse of the market. At this point, it’s a game of Nuclear Chicken between VC firms and AI firms to see who blinks first and admits the whole thing is a loss. Don’t worry, though, the greater US economy will likely crumble significantly too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
“Contrary to expectations revealed in four surveys, cross-country data and six additional studies find that people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI,” the paper found.
Ouch.
Lower AI literacy being… like people who barely understand how to use a computer, or people who aren’t actively developing the AI systems of the future?
The illiteracy and ignorance is intentional.
Dunning-Kruger, but AI.
Chat-DK
I wouldn’t be surprised if a significant portion of that 29% that say it’s good for productivity are managers or business owners.
Or they haven’t realized increased perceived productivity is a bad thing. The goalpost is always moving for demanded worker productivity. Oh the invention of the computer can increase productivity by 100 times? No, you’re not getting a less work utopia, instead, guess how much productivity you’re now expected to produce? Oh the invention of the internet can increase productivity by 1000 times? Oh shoot, guess ya gotta get back to work to make those gains!!!
You can compare productivity to wage gains since the 80s. It’s quite bleak.
Says you. I just got back from a trip where I watched a lady hand key 100 workers hand written time cards into a computer system. I’m sure that person would be much more content if she wasn’t sitting in a cave all day slowly giving herself carpal tunnel.
The better way would be to leverage technology so workers could scan themselves in, then train the admin to review for anomalies.
You’re both right because you’re talking about completely different things.
I wouldn’t call it good for productivity but it can be useful but regime propaganda greatly overstates how useful it is.
They are acting like you are getting an entire workshop but it is closer to get a tool kit you give to a high schooler.
It is inherently flawed due to the tech relying on statistical predictions so it can’t tell wrong from right.
Which makes useless unless you already know the right answer.
As they should.
If they had polled elsewhere, they might have gotten similar results.
About nobody loves AI, except for some greedier-than-smart managers and AI addicts.
