ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, and the promise and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) have loomed large in the public consciousness ever since. Because perceptions of a new technology like AI can help shape how the technology is developed and used, it is important to understand what Americans think about AI—how positively or negatively they regard the technology, and what hopes and concerns they have about it.
AI perceived more negatively than climate science or science in general
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What makes a person willing to use violence?This post was originally published on this site
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NPR recently reported that the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Futures Lab is experimenting with tools such as DeepSeek and ChatGPT to explore how artificial intelligence could change—and improve—how foreign policy decisions are made.This [...]
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“China virus,” the Chinese virus—at the start of the 2020 pandemic, this epithet was often encountered in the media. The use of geographically based labels to define the disease (COVID-19) and the virus causing it [...]
