People with expertise working with artificial intelligence tools are fairly confident that AI will have a positive effect in the next 20 years, but relatively few US adults feel the same way, according to the results of a Pew Research Center survey.
The surge of generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the last few years has pushed the subject into the mainstream. Pew said the share of the public who say they’re more concerned has risen since a similar survey in 2021.
Among AI experts, 56% said they expected AI’s impact on the US to be positive in the next 20 years. In contrast, only 17% of the public had that perspective, with 35% feeling AI will have a negative effect. (Among AI experts, 15% expected a negative impact.)
A big reason for the gap is that ordinary Americans are far less optimistic about the effect that AI will have on important aspects of their lives, like the…
