Public trust in artificial intelligence has plummeted sharply even as everyday reliance on the technology reaches new highs, with growing public anxiety shifting from near-term disruptions like job displacement to long-term, once-fictional doomsday scenarios that once felt confined to science fiction. Leading experts across top academic institutions have weighed in on these rising fears, pushing back against unsubstantiated extreme doomsday claims while acknowledging that unregulated, breakneck AI development carries real, underaddressed risks to public safety and human control. Rather than pushing for a full, blanket pause on all AI progress, most informed voices are calling for balanced, expert-led guardrails that prioritize safety testing and responsible governance, rejecting both unthinking tech utopianism and ungrounded alarmism to steer the technology toward more sustainable, public-focused advancement.
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3969
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The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: 73% Concerned About Potential Threat To Human Survival, Quinnipiac University Poll On AI Finds; 86% Support Independent Safety Standards For AI Companies | Quinnipiac University Poll
"The results show a clear theme about the fear of harm coming from AI and its users. More people expect AI to do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and while there are significant concerns about future AI threatening humans, Americans are much more worried about AI being used by people to do harm to others," said Brian O'Neill, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean, Quinnipiac University School of Computing and Engineering.
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