A new poll by the Pew Research Center has found that Americans are getting extremely fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives.
A whopping 53 percent of just over 5,000 US adults polled in June think that AI will “worsen people’s ability to think creatively.” Fifty percent say AI will deteriorate our ability to form meaningful relationships, while only five percent believe the reverse.
While 29 percent of respondents said they believe AI will make people better problem-solvers, 38 percent said it could worsen our ability to solve problems.
The poll highlights a growing distrust and disillusionment with AI. Average Americans are concerned about how AI tools could stifle human creativity, as the industry continues to celebrate the automation of human labor as a cost-cutting measure.
Uggh, that sounds like hell. If you’re gonna tell people exactly how to do their job you might as well have a machine do it. Right? My contribution is the fact that I do things with my own flair. My customers love me because I respond and behave like a unique and identifiable real person they know, not like a robotic copycat sycophant clone. Sometimes my jokes miss the first time, but over time I build meaningful repitoire with my customers. I truly empathize with their concerns because I see how the industry crushes them, have been there myself, and I understand what it means not just in the sense of being able to see and define concepts, but I can understand how it feels from perspectives that take a lifetime to develop and I can identify the ripple effects that people feel in their lives due to work environments, budget crunches, policy changes, etc. I would rather deliver bad news awkwardly as a human than have chat gtp do it and I would rather receive it the same way also.