{"id":139759,"date":"2022-05-24T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/how-americans-think-about-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:22:20","slug":"how-americans-think-about-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/how-americans-think-about-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"How Americans think about artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-americans-think-about-artificial-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading through society into some of the most important sectors of people\u2019s lives \u2013 from health care and legal services to agriculture and transportation.<sup class=\u2019footnote\u2019><a href='https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2022\/03\/17\/how-americans-think-about-artificial-intelligence\/#fn-28018-1' id='fnref-28018-1'>1<\/a><\/sup> As Americans watch this proliferation, they are worried in some ways and excited in others.<\/p>\n<p>In broad strokes, a larger share of Americans say they are \u201cmore concerned than excited\u201d by the increased use of AI in daily life than say the opposite. Nearly half of U.S. adults (45%) say they are equally concerned and excited. Asked to explain in their own words what concerns them most about AI, some of those who are more concerned than excited cite their worries about potential loss of jobs, privacy considerations and the prospect that AI\u2019s ascent might surpass human skills \u2013 and others say it will lead to a loss of human connection, be misused or be relied on too much.<\/p>\n<p>But others are \u201cmore excited than concerned,\u201d and they mention such things as the societal improvements they hope will emerge, the time savings and efficiencies AI can bring to daily life and the ways in which AI systems might be helpful and safer at work. And people have mixed views on whether three specific AI applications are good or bad for society at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading through society into some of the most important sectors of people\u2019s lives \u2013 from health care and legal services to agriculture and transportation.1 As Americans watch this proliferation, they are worried in some ways and excited in others. In broad strokes, a larger share of Americans say they are \u201cmore [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1506,1495,1496,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-food","category-health","category-law","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}