61% of Americans say AI threatens humanity

Most Americans believe that the rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies could threaten humanity’s future. This is according to a joint study Reuters and Ipsos.

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More than two-thirds of respondents are concerned about negative consequences from AI adoption, and 61% believe it could threaten civilization.

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22% of respondents did not agree with this assertion, and 17% could not answer the question.

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The supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump expressed greater concern. 70% of them agreed that AI could threaten humanity. Among Joe Biden’s voters, 60% held that view.

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Religiously, 32% of evangelicals “completely agreed” that AI threatens civilization. 24% of adherents of other Christian denominations share that view.

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“This shows that many Americans are concerned about the negative consequences of AI,” said the director of US policy at the Future of Life Institute, Landon Klein.

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According to him, the current situation is comparable to the dawn of the nuclear era, but there is now an opportunity to study public opinion and take necessary measures.

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Earlier, researchers from The Tech Oversight Project found that a majority of Americans support the US Congress’s efforts to curb AI.

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Earlier in March, Goldman Sachs analysts said that generative AI threatens about 300 million jobs in developed countries.

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In the same month, OpenAI researchers assessed the impact of GPT models on the labor market in the United States. According to them, the technology automates up to 10% of tasks for 80% of Americans.

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In May, billionaire investor Warren Buffett compared artificial intelligence with the creation of an atomic bomb.