Overview

• A Pew survey of 5,023 U.S. adults finds 50% are more concerned than excited about AI’s spread, and 57% rate its societal risks as high.
• About 61% want more personal control over how AI is used, yet only 13% feel they have a great deal of control and 57% say they have little or none.
• Most Americans want AI confined to data-heavy tasks, with majorities favoring roles like weather forecasting and fraud detection but rejecting involvement in religion and matchmaking.
• While 76% say it is important to know if content was made by AI or a person, 53% are not confident they can tell the difference.
• An Elon University poll presented at an RTI/Elon conference reports majorities expect AI to worsen key human capacities over the next decade, and experts there warned about social, ethical and environmental risks.