A poll of 700 consumers by Elicit Insights showed 73% of respondents do not trust companies to be restrained in their use of AI, with sentiment towards the technology tainted by negative press around recent events at Facebook. While 59% believed AI had the potential for good, but carried some inherent risks, 18% saw it as posing "an existential threat to humanity". The survey also found that only a third of people would consider using an artificial intelligence system if they were given access to it.
A poll of 700 consumers by Elicit Insights showed 73% of respondents do not trust companies to be restrained in their use of AI, with sentiment towards the technology tainted by negative press around recent events at Facebook. While 59% believed AI had the potential for good, but carried some inherent risks, 18% saw it as posing "an existential threat to humanity". Views on whether AI should be used to benefit companies or their consumers were roughly balanced, with around 37% versus 24% agreeing and disagreeing respectively that companies should or should not use the technology to that end.