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Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds (www.axios.com)

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The majority of U.S. adults don't believe the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks, according to a new Mitre-Harris Poll released Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you also don't have to understand how 5g works to know it spreads covid /s

point is, I don't see how your analogy works beyond the limited scope of only things that result in an immediate loss of life

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t need to know the ins and outs of how the nazi regime operated to know it was bad for humanity. I don’t need to know how a vaccine works to know it’s probably good for me to get. I don’t need to know the ins and outs of personal data collection and exploitation to know it’s probably not good for society. There are lots of examples.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

okay, I'll concede, my scope also was pretty limited. I still stand by not trusting the public with deciding what's the best use of AI, when most people think what we have now is anything more than statistics supercharged in its implementation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can certainly give that "you" don't need to know but there are a lot of differing opinions on even the things you're talking about inside of the people that are in this very community.

I would say that the Royal we need to know because there are a lot of opinions on facts that don't line up with actual facts for a lot of people. Sure, not you, not me but a hell of a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t disagree that people are stupid, but the majority of people got/supported the vaccine. Majority is sometimes a good indicator, that’s how democracy works. Again, it’s not perfect, but it’s not useless either.