Americans aren’t sold on artificial intelligence.
Studies and surveys from the last five years or so indicate general distrust in technologies like facial recognition, targeted ads, smart home devices and banking apps, even as many consumers have come to rely on such services for convenience reasons. (It’s easier for Americans to express their skepticism for those “moonshot” A.I. projects that haven’t hit the mainstream yet…like self-driving cars.)
Why are we all so suspicious? Well, you might blame those viral clips of Boston Dynamics dogs, or that McKinsey report that predicted A.I. will take 800 million jobs from the global workforce by the year 2030. Many of us are hard-wired to associate robotics with destruction and displacement.
But consider the flip side: Boston Dynamics (and five other leading firms) recently signed a pact pledging to never “arm” its robots, while the World Economic Forum has estimated that A.I. will actually create more jobs than it replaces over the next several decades — with a capacity to generate 100 million new jobs by 2025.
Continue reading: https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/health-and-fitness/artificial-intelligence-trust-americans
Studies and surveys from the last five years or so indicate general distrust in technologies like facial recognition, targeted ads, smart home devices and banking apps, even as many consumers have come to rely on such services for convenience reasons. (It’s easier for Americans to express their skepticism for those “moonshot” A.I. projects that haven’t hit the mainstream yet…like self-driving cars.)
Why are we all so suspicious? Well, you might blame those viral clips of Boston Dynamics dogs, or that McKinsey report that predicted A.I. will take 800 million jobs from the global workforce by the year 2030. Many of us are hard-wired to associate robotics with destruction and displacement.
But consider the flip side: Boston Dynamics (and five other leading firms) recently signed a pact pledging to never “arm” its robots, while the World Economic Forum has estimated that A.I. will actually create more jobs than it replaces over the next several decades — with a capacity to generate 100 million new jobs by 2025.
Continue reading: https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/health-and-fitness/artificial-intelligence-trust-americans
