Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends.” Oxford, UK: Center for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, 2019
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Public opinion on AI governance 17 3.1 Americans consider many AI governance challenges to be important; prioritize data privacy and preventing AI-enhanced cyber attacks, surveillance, and digital manipulation ..................... 17 3.2 Americans who are younger, who have CS or engineering degrees express less concern about AI governance challenges .................................................. 20 3.3 Americans place the most trust in the U.S. military and universities to build AI; trust tech companies and non-governmental organizations more than the government to manage the technology .......... 20 4 AI policy and U.S.-China relations 26 4.1 Americans underestimate the U.S. and China’s AI research and development ............... 26 4.2 Communicating the dangers of a U.S.-China arms race requires explaining policy trade-offs ........ 26 4.3 Americans see the potential for U.S.-China cooperation on some AI governance challenges ........ 28 5 Trend across time: attitudes toward workplace automation 31 5.1 Americans do not think that labor market disruptions will increase with time ............... 31 5.2 Extending the historical time trend ..................................... 31 6 High-level machine intelligence 34 6.1 The public predicts a 54% likelihood of high-level machine intelligence within 10 years .......... 34 6.2 Americans express mixed support for developing high-level machine intelligence ............. 36 6.3 High-income Americans, men, and those with tech experience express greater support for high-level ma- chine intelligence .............................................. 36 6.4 The public expects high-level machine intelligence to be more harmful than good ............. 37 A Appendix A: Methodology 42 B Appendix B: Topline questionnaire 44 C Appendix C: Additional data analysis results 88 About us 108 References 109 1 Baobao Zhang Research Affiliate, Center for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Yale University Allan Dafoe Director, Center for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the International Politics of AI, University of Oxford For useful feedback we would like to thank: Miles Brundage, Jack Clark, Kanta Dihal, Jeffrey Ding, Carrick Flynn, Ben Garfinkel, Rose Hadshar, Tim Hwang, Katelynn Kyker, Jade Leung, Luke Muehlhauser, Cullen O’Keefe, Michael Page, William Rathje, Carl Shulman, Brian Tse, Remco Zwetsloot, and the YouGov Team (Marissa Shih and Sam Luks). In particular, we are grateful for Markus Anderljung’s insightful suggestions and detailed editing. Copy editor: Steven Van Tassell Cover