Ordinary People Fear AI, While the Tech Leaders Working to Create a Permanent Underclass Say They’re Extremely Psyched About It

Futurism.com: Academic researchers, tech industry insiders, and analysts, meanwhile, “report more optimism than the US public,” the report found. For example, a whopping 84 percent of “AI experts” surveyed expect positive impacts on medical care, compared to just 44 percent of regular US adults. For the economic impacts, 69 percent of experts expressed optimism, compared to just 21 percent of normal folks. (Intriguingly, there are a few things that the public and the AI insiders are collectively cynical about, like news media, personal relationships, and elections.)

My Opinion: It seems that while experts are optimistic about the impact of AI, most ordinary people are pessimistic. You should also differentiate between workers and unemployed people. Because I think that most workers who are at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy are afraid and worried about AI. While retired or otherwise unemployed people, whose main interaction with the economy is as consumers, should be more positive about AI.