Three years ago, as OpenAI’s ChatGPT was making its splashy debut, a Pew Research center survey found that nearly one in five Americans saw AI as a benefit rather than a threat. But by 2025, 43 percent of U.S. adults now believe AI is more likely to harm them than help them in the future, according to Pew.
1 in 5 people seeing something as positive is not a high approval rating in the beginning.
Well yes, technology improvements that mean humans can work less are only a good thing if you have an economic system that actually prioritises general wellbeing over enriching a tiny percentage of the population.
Americans are the most fucked because the majority of the public view socialism and adjacent philosophy as being bad, despite really being the only ideologies with any real answers for what happens to people that can’t work for a living, that isn’t just them dying.
If you begin a large change management project in a company, having 20% of the employees think it’s positive before you hardly start is like starting halfway to the finish line.
Except you tell them the project will likely make most of their jobs redundant, and you’re (still somehow) surprised that the majority grow to hate your project, and will actively sabotage it if they get the chance.
1 in 5 people seeing something as positive is not a high approval rating in the beginning.
I mean 4 out of 5 Americans probably held the opinion:
Well yes, technology improvements that mean humans can work less are only a good thing if you have an economic system that actually prioritises general wellbeing over enriching a tiny percentage of the population.
Americans are the most fucked because the majority of the public view socialism and adjacent philosophy as being bad, despite really being the only ideologies with any real answers for what happens to people that can’t work for a living, that isn’t just them dying.
If you begin a large change management project in a company, having 20% of the employees think it’s positive before you hardly start is like starting halfway to the finish line.
Except you tell them the project will likely make most of their jobs redundant, and you’re (still somehow) surprised that the majority grow to hate your project, and will actively sabotage it if they get the chance.
Tbh, 20% is markedly better than the default ~37% “shitgoblin vote” you see in the US, amongst other places