A Quinnipiac University national poll strongly suggests that Americans' fears about AI now go well beyond job losses and energy cost hikes due to new data centers. More than half of respondents (52%) said they are more concerned that other humans will use AI to do harm to humanity, while a third (33%) said they're more concerned that autonomous AI agents will do harm to humanity.
A Quinnipiac University national poll strongly suggests that Americans' fears about AI now go well beyond job losses and energy cost hikes due to new data centers.
More than half of respondents (52%) said they are more concerned that other humans will use AI to do harm to humanity, while a third (33%) said they're more concerned that autonomous AI agents will do harm...
The poll comes as the Trump administration and the AI industry are both working to rehabilitate AI's image with the public.
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A Quinnipiac University national poll strongly suggests that Americans' fears about AI now go well beyond job losses and energy cost hikes due to new data centers. More than half of respondents (52%) said they are more concerned that other humans will use AI to do harm to humanity, while a third (33%) said they're more concerned that autonomous AI agents will do harm to humanity. The poll comes as the Trump administration and the AI industry are both working to rehabilitate AI's image with the public.
Fears about AI threatening humanity have gone mainstream. The poll, released Wednesday, found that 73% of Americans are either very concerned (38%) or somewhat concerned (35%) that future AI systems could threaten human survival, while just 25% are either not so concerned (14%) or not concerned at all (11%). The accord was signed by Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, and Nvidia.
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