4 comments

  • choney 3 hours ago ago

    I helped design and analyze the poll.

    Like in most prior polling, only about 1/3 of Americans had positive sentiment toward AI (and 1/3 were negative and 1/3 mixed). But people who use AI daily are much more positive than the broader population. Which I think means that the HN crowd is more positive than most of the USA about AI?

  • paytonjjones 2 hours ago ago

    I care A LOT about AI regulation, but the regulations questions are not at all the type of regulations I care about.

    My concern is that we will eventually build intelligence that surpasses humans in all ways, which has a very high risk of killing us, replacing us, or at the very most optimistic still requiring civilization-level overhaul. I want regulations to slow and/or prevent that.

    I couldn't care less about having a "right" to a human doctor. Actually I find the notion a bit ridiculous. In the pre-AI world most people across the world don't have easy access to a human doctor.

    • choney 2 hours ago ago

      Are there specific kinds of regulations that you have in mind for slowing AI development? We would be interested to add those in future iterations of the poll.