{"id":77781,"date":"2025-06-16T03:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/?p=77781"},"modified":"2025-06-15T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:28:19","slug":"most-americans-dont-trust-ai-or-the-people-in-charge-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/most-americans-dont-trust-ai-or-the-people-in-charge-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans don’t trust\u00a0AI\u00a0\u2014 or the people in charge of it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Kylie Robison –\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/span>AI experts are feeling pretty good about the future of their field. Most Americans are not.<\/p>\n

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A new report from Pew Research Center\u00a0released last week<\/a>\u00a0shows a sharp divide in how artificial intelligence is perceived by the people building it versus the people living with it. The survey, which includes responses from over 1,000 AI experts and more than 5,000 US adults, reveals a growing optimism gap: experts are hopeful, while the public is anxious, distrustful, and increasingly uneasy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Roughly three-quarters of AI experts think the technology will benefit them personally. Only a quarter of the public says the same. Experts believe AI will make jobs better; the public thinks it will take them away. Even basic trust in the system is fractured: more than half of both groups say they want more control over how AI is used in their lives, and majorities say they don\u2019t trust the government or private companies to regulate it responsibly.<\/p>\n

That makes sense when you look at just how hard the US government has failed at basic tech regulation. Congress loves to haul big tech CEOs in for theatrical hearings where lawmakers fumble through questions about\u00a0Section 230<\/a> that sound like they were written by someone who just discovered the internet yesterday. Read On:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 From my experience, publishing articles on AI, the push back from some people is strong and concerning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two new studies show that the public is anxious about AI.<\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/group-of-people-some-seated-some-standing-2.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77787,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77781\/revisions\/77787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}