AI as it currently exists is terrible. On every level. And the billionaires keep trying to shove it down our throats everywhere they can.
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CouchCorrespondent on
And most of those people are probably are now unemployed, living near a “soon-to-be-built” data center, or know how absolutely shitty AI is…
ChauvinistPenguin on
Too bad we live in a post-democratic society; it doesn’t matter what voters think.
Quiet-Corner6150 on
“AI” is a technology, which makes it a nebulous thing, kinda like nuclear energy. Nuclear energy can make power plants or it can make bombs, and it all depends who has it. AI of today is not all that dissimilar. It cannot act without command (no matter what clever things try to suggest it is in any way alive, thinking, or remembering beyond your immediate “conversation context”), so when it gets used for bad things, that is, as always, a human purposing it for evil.
Now, that said, I absolutely think it needs regulation, not just this decade-long “do whatever you want in the meantime” stuff. And something somehow needs to stop it from being purposed for cheapskates just looking to eliminate jobs, like replacing call center lines. But, most obviously, it needs to be strictly and harshly regulated if it’s being used to misinform the public, which is probably what we best know it for next to general slop generation.
It’s such a shame. I’ve read things about AI being useful in solving fusion energy or more accurate weather predicting, things we could all get behind and benefit from. Constantly making “nuclear bombs” out of it will likely snuff out a lot of the actual good it could be doing if it wasn’t just yet another for-profit disaster like everything else the US likes to make.
ShowerCurtainRings on
The govt or tech fucks don’t give a shit what voters want.
invertedspheres on
AI is really just a tool for the billionaire class to wipe out nearly all wealth from the entire populace. So many jobs are under threat from AI and it’s not just entry level work. We are going to wake up and find ourselves living in some techno-dystopian hell where no one has any money and we’re under constant surveillance by the state.
FernandoMM1220 on
i still have yet to see any down side to ai
basketballsteven on
Yes that’s the way i feel especially after reading the book ‘if anyone builds it we all die’. This is a book about the race to build a super artificial intelligence and the book gives many examples of how we already know we cannot because of it’s lying, and many bad acts.
iAmSamFromWSB on
It generally does not benefit the majority of people
NotAnotherEmpire on
Doesn’t want to pay tax and utility bills, people boast about how it will enable firing all those annoying “workers.” Of course it’s unpopular.
rollem on
The only two less popular items on that survey were Iran and the Democratic Party 😂 I’m a Democrat who hates Democrats so I think that checks out.
Surturiel on
The majority of people seems to realize that: if this thing fails, it takes down the market. If it succeeds, it’ll destroy the white collar middle class, the economy, and truth as we know.
Only billionaires, grifters and idiots think the AI boom is a good idea.
Independent-Self371 on
Votes don’t matter in this administration. Didn’t get the memo?
Killerkurto on
I work in a field that uses AI in a variety of capacities and have used it to do my job more efficiently.
It can do some things really well and is a tool with endless potential.
But it has a lot of flaws. And it has the potential for really damaging misuse. People are right to be incredibly wary.
CheesyPotatoSack on
I’d like to see the numbers of this poll and who they polled. I don’t believe them. This is probably just a price payed for by tech companies to try to turn down heat and also try to get others to agree with this statement. If they think others are fine with they will be too
koalafied_applicant on
If we can use AI to kill itself then I’m all for it.
TheGrayJamie on
Like Capitalism, AI without tight controls will be used to exploit and deprive, so that a few may profit from resources meant for all. If we aren’t carefully regulating AI, AI will learn to *regulate* us.
Mike5473 on
This information is all nice and kind to hear but what you don’t get is NOBODY is listening!
Yoooooooowhatsup on
I’m all about technological progress but between the internet/social media and now AI, it’s clear these things need to be heavily regulated to prevent them being misused for nefarious purposes. We don’t react quickly enough to this stuff. It was clear 10 years ago that social media was on a bad path. It was clear algorithms were being used to manipulate people and make money. And now it’s clear that AI will be used in the same way. We don’t need to wait 10 years to decide to act.
These things have tons of practical potential, but they need to be regulated and laws need to be drafted in real time, not a decade or two later.
Example: pass a law that all AI content needs to be watermarked in the metadata that it was AI generated, so there’s at least *some* way for the average layman to verify this. Simple, easy. But we’ll wait like 15 years to do it and so much damage will be done by then.
rockum on
> A majority of registered voters, 57%, said they believe the risks of AI outweigh its benefits, compared with 34% who said the opposite. What’s more, a plurality of voters view AI negatively and don’t believe either Democrats or Republicans are doing a good job handling policy related to the rapidly advancing technology.
> The demographic groups with the most negative views of AI are voters ages 18-34, among whom the net favorability rating for AI is minus 44, and women ages 18-49, who reported a net AI favorability rating of minus 41. The two groups with the most positive views of AI are men over 50, with a plus 2 favorability rating, and upper-class voters, who also have a plus 2 favorability rating.
That makes sense: people not concerned with AI taking over their jobs are positive about AI and those with that concern view AI negatively.
pollology on
Literally just tech bros trying to make us all live in their ideal simulations. I’m so tired of it.
joefred111 on
Unfortunately what the voters want doesn’t matter anymore.
In fact it matters less and less each day.
It shouldn’t be that way, but that’s the way it’s going.
hairymoot on
AI needs to have lots of government regulation and be taxed.
kbeckerburbs4 on
What is the % of voters who can speak intelligently about AI and its risks and benefits? Less than 1%
notfeelany on
The use cases shown in any Ai ads are just laughable
HonoredPeople on
AI is a weapon.
Period.
Stop giving stupid people weapons of mass destruction.
There’s no good form of AI. Open the box and shove this back inside.
newmoonchaperone on
~ Polling
*”Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits”*
Great to hear, will be even better to relate. But, this poll is utter junk:
👀 The notion that the Republican party is more popular (~ “polls” better) is asinine, insipid and so poorly presented, *I wonder if they just conjured it whilst squinting at the poll data?*
madasfire on
Voters who respond to polls have proven repeatedly to be the smartest of the cut.
klako8196 on
And this is the most popular AI is ever going to be. Once we really start seeing more job losses due to AI, people are only going to get angrier at it.
Responsible_Tree3369 on
But what do the richest voters say?
thegoatmenace on
They haven’t even tried to produce a product that provides anything of value for the average person. Sure we can generate shitty images but at the cost of losing our job.
Bluegobln on
The risks outweigh the benefit?
You mean the imagined risks of it taking over the world and killing all humans, like some kind of sci-fi trope?
How about the benefits of literally curing any or all diseases, extending human lifetimes into the hundreds of years… the possible benefit of solving nearly every problem humanity faces like global climate, energy, hunger? Are they aware of those potential benefits?
You know what else could kill all of us? Nuclear weapons. A plague. And all of those are only stopped if the right people are in power around the world. A world war could damn near end us too, or at least do a lot of damage! Anyone concerned about those things? What are the benefits THOSE have for us, hmm?
No? Its just the AI. That’s the real danger, clearly. /s
ATXGil2L on
I think any sane person would even say the Internet should go away too. We go back to pre-2000. Books. We need so many books.
Ok_Height3499 on
The majority of voters don’t know a thing about AI.
GuavaShaper on
The fact that most voters don’t like it means that it will never go away. Americans will always vote against their own interests.
New-Equal8039 on
Too late. My understanding is that in 12 months, millions of entry level white collar jobs will disappear. Literally. College kids will have no chance. Things are going to get very uncomfortable.
AI exec solutions? They’re saying
tax AI businesses more. But since DJT is literally robbing this country blind every day to the tune of billions of dollars, that solution isn’t going to go down well.
SandSpecialist2523 on
Who cares what the voters say? I’m I right?
/s
CDBoomGun on
It’s definitely making our kids lazy. I suppose we won’t see the cog/academic impacts for years. Be prepared for the, “what did we do wrong?!” Headlines.
EunuchsProgramer on
I don’t see a possible positive outcome:
1) AI is worth trillions of dollars and I lose my job, forever.
2) AI can’t take my job, it isn’t worth trillions, and this is a bubble/depression on a historic level.
3) The doomers are right and it kills us.
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AI as it currently exists is terrible. On every level. And the billionaires keep trying to shove it down our throats everywhere they can.
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And most of those people are probably are now unemployed, living near a “soon-to-be-built” data center, or know how absolutely shitty AI is…
Too bad we live in a post-democratic society; it doesn’t matter what voters think.
“AI” is a technology, which makes it a nebulous thing, kinda like nuclear energy. Nuclear energy can make power plants or it can make bombs, and it all depends who has it. AI of today is not all that dissimilar. It cannot act without command (no matter what clever things try to suggest it is in any way alive, thinking, or remembering beyond your immediate “conversation context”), so when it gets used for bad things, that is, as always, a human purposing it for evil.
Now, that said, I absolutely think it needs regulation, not just this decade-long “do whatever you want in the meantime” stuff. And something somehow needs to stop it from being purposed for cheapskates just looking to eliminate jobs, like replacing call center lines. But, most obviously, it needs to be strictly and harshly regulated if it’s being used to misinform the public, which is probably what we best know it for next to general slop generation.
It’s such a shame. I’ve read things about AI being useful in solving fusion energy or more accurate weather predicting, things we could all get behind and benefit from. Constantly making “nuclear bombs” out of it will likely snuff out a lot of the actual good it could be doing if it wasn’t just yet another for-profit disaster like everything else the US likes to make.
The govt or tech fucks don’t give a shit what voters want.
AI is really just a tool for the billionaire class to wipe out nearly all wealth from the entire populace. So many jobs are under threat from AI and it’s not just entry level work. We are going to wake up and find ourselves living in some techno-dystopian hell where no one has any money and we’re under constant surveillance by the state.
i still have yet to see any down side to ai
Yes that’s the way i feel especially after reading the book ‘if anyone builds it we all die’. This is a book about the race to build a super artificial intelligence and the book gives many examples of how we already know we cannot because of it’s lying, and many bad acts.
It generally does not benefit the majority of people
Doesn’t want to pay tax and utility bills, people boast about how it will enable firing all those annoying “workers.” Of course it’s unpopular.
The only two less popular items on that survey were Iran and the Democratic Party 😂 I’m a Democrat who hates Democrats so I think that checks out.
The majority of people seems to realize that: if this thing fails, it takes down the market. If it succeeds, it’ll destroy the white collar middle class, the economy, and truth as we know.
Only billionaires, grifters and idiots think the AI boom is a good idea.
Votes don’t matter in this administration. Didn’t get the memo?
I work in a field that uses AI in a variety of capacities and have used it to do my job more efficiently.
It can do some things really well and is a tool with endless potential.
But it has a lot of flaws. And it has the potential for really damaging misuse. People are right to be incredibly wary.
I’d like to see the numbers of this poll and who they polled. I don’t believe them. This is probably just a price payed for by tech companies to try to turn down heat and also try to get others to agree with this statement. If they think others are fine with they will be too
If we can use AI to kill itself then I’m all for it.
Like Capitalism, AI without tight controls will be used to exploit and deprive, so that a few may profit from resources meant for all. If we aren’t carefully regulating AI, AI will learn to *regulate* us.
This information is all nice and kind to hear but what you don’t get is NOBODY is listening!
I’m all about technological progress but between the internet/social media and now AI, it’s clear these things need to be heavily regulated to prevent them being misused for nefarious purposes. We don’t react quickly enough to this stuff. It was clear 10 years ago that social media was on a bad path. It was clear algorithms were being used to manipulate people and make money. And now it’s clear that AI will be used in the same way. We don’t need to wait 10 years to decide to act.
These things have tons of practical potential, but they need to be regulated and laws need to be drafted in real time, not a decade or two later.
Example: pass a law that all AI content needs to be watermarked in the metadata that it was AI generated, so there’s at least *some* way for the average layman to verify this. Simple, easy. But we’ll wait like 15 years to do it and so much damage will be done by then.
> A majority of registered voters, 57%, said they believe the risks of AI outweigh its benefits, compared with 34% who said the opposite. What’s more, a plurality of voters view AI negatively and don’t believe either Democrats or Republicans are doing a good job handling policy related to the rapidly advancing technology.
> The demographic groups with the most negative views of AI are voters ages 18-34, among whom the net favorability rating for AI is minus 44, and women ages 18-49, who reported a net AI favorability rating of minus 41. The two groups with the most positive views of AI are men over 50, with a plus 2 favorability rating, and upper-class voters, who also have a plus 2 favorability rating.
That makes sense: people not concerned with AI taking over their jobs are positive about AI and those with that concern view AI negatively.
Literally just tech bros trying to make us all live in their ideal simulations. I’m so tired of it.
Unfortunately what the voters want doesn’t matter anymore.
In fact it matters less and less each day.
It shouldn’t be that way, but that’s the way it’s going.
AI needs to have lots of government regulation and be taxed.
What is the % of voters who can speak intelligently about AI and its risks and benefits? Less than 1%
The use cases shown in any Ai ads are just laughable
AI is a weapon.
Period.
Stop giving stupid people weapons of mass destruction.
There’s no good form of AI. Open the box and shove this back inside.
~ Polling
*”Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits”*
Great to hear, will be even better to relate. But, this poll is utter junk:
* [***”Bill McInturff, a ➡➡➡ Republican pollster with Public Opinion Strategies, which conducted the NBC News poll along with the Democratic polling firm ⬅⬅⬅ Hart Research Associates,”***](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27777984-nbc-news-march-2026-poll-03-08-2024-release-final/)
* [***”The NBC News poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters Feb. 27-March 3 via a mix of telephone interviews and an online survey sent via text message”***](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27777984-nbc-news-march-2026-poll-03-08-2024-release-final/)
👀 The notion that the Republican party is more popular (~ “polls” better) is asinine, insipid and so poorly presented, *I wonder if they just conjured it whilst squinting at the poll data?*
Voters who respond to polls have proven repeatedly to be the smartest of the cut.
And this is the most popular AI is ever going to be. Once we really start seeing more job losses due to AI, people are only going to get angrier at it.
But what do the richest voters say?
They haven’t even tried to produce a product that provides anything of value for the average person. Sure we can generate shitty images but at the cost of losing our job.
The risks outweigh the benefit?
You mean the imagined risks of it taking over the world and killing all humans, like some kind of sci-fi trope?
How about the benefits of literally curing any or all diseases, extending human lifetimes into the hundreds of years… the possible benefit of solving nearly every problem humanity faces like global climate, energy, hunger? Are they aware of those potential benefits?
You know what else could kill all of us? Nuclear weapons. A plague. And all of those are only stopped if the right people are in power around the world. A world war could damn near end us too, or at least do a lot of damage! Anyone concerned about those things? What are the benefits THOSE have for us, hmm?
No? Its just the AI. That’s the real danger, clearly. /s
I think any sane person would even say the Internet should go away too. We go back to pre-2000. Books. We need so many books.
The majority of voters don’t know a thing about AI.
The fact that most voters don’t like it means that it will never go away. Americans will always vote against their own interests.
Too late. My understanding is that in 12 months, millions of entry level white collar jobs will disappear. Literally. College kids will have no chance. Things are going to get very uncomfortable.
AI exec solutions? They’re saying
tax AI businesses more. But since DJT is literally robbing this country blind every day to the tune of billions of dollars, that solution isn’t going to go down well.
Who cares what the voters say? I’m I right?
/s
It’s definitely making our kids lazy. I suppose we won’t see the cog/academic impacts for years. Be prepared for the, “what did we do wrong?!” Headlines.
I don’t see a possible positive outcome:
1) AI is worth trillions of dollars and I lose my job, forever.
2) AI can’t take my job, it isn’t worth trillions, and this is a bubble/depression on a historic level.
3) The doomers are right and it kills us.