{"id":165589,"date":"2023-06-11T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T02:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/more-than-half-of-americans-think-ai-poses-a-threat-to-humanity"},"modified":"2023-06-11T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T02:24:06","slug":"more-than-half-of-americans-think-ai-poses-a-threat-to-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/more-than-half-of-americans-think-ai-poses-a-threat-to-humanity","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half of Americans Think AI Poses a Threat to Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-than-half-of-americans-think-ai-poses-a-threat-to-humanity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One nebulous aspect of the poll, and of many of the headlines about AI we see on a daily basis, is how the technology is defined. What are we referring to when we say \u201cAI\u201d? The term encompasses everything from recommendation algorithms that serve up content on YouTube and Netflix, to large language models like ChatGPT, to models that can design incredibly complex <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2023\/04\/24\/this-ai-can-design-complex-proteins-perfectly-tailored-to-our-needs\/\">protein architectures<\/a>, to the Siri assistant built into many iPhones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence\">IBM\u2019s definition<\/a> is simple: \u201ca field which combines computer science and robust datasets to enable problem-solving.\u201d Google, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/learn\/what-is-artificial-intelligence\">defines<\/a> it as \u201ca set of technologies that enable computers to perform a variety of advanced functions, including the ability to see, understand and translate spoken and written language, analyze data, make recommendations, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It could be that peoples\u2019 fear and distrust of AI comes partly from a lack of understanding of it, and a stronger focus on unsettling examples than positive ones. The AI that can design complex <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2023\/04\/24\/this-ai-can-design-complex-proteins-perfectly-tailored-to-our-needs\/\">proteins<\/a> may help scientists discover stronger vaccines and other drugs, and could do so on a vastly accelerated timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One nebulous aspect of the poll, and of many of the headlines about AI we see on a daily basis, is how the technology is defined. What are we referring to when we say \u201cAI\u201d? The term encompasses everything from recommendation algorithms that serve up content on YouTube and Netflix, to large language models like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165589","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}