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Edelman this week released a flash update to its highly influential Trust Barometer, showing Americans are deeply fearful and distrustful of the Trump administr
by zerosizedweasle 11mo ago
Edelman this week released a flash update to its highly influential Trust Barometer, showing Americans are deeply fearful and distrustful of the Trump administration's top domestic fixation: accelerating AI. Big majorities are pessimistic about the technology broadly, and super-anxious that robots will eat their jobs. The global poll found that younger people in the U.S. (18-34) are much more distrustful of AI than their counterparts elsewhere in the developed world. Edelman CEO Richard Edelman told us: "People might believe that AI is globalization 2.0 — that jobs will shift out of our country, and jobs will go to ... somebody younger or cheaper."
- techblueberry 11mo ago“Might believe”?
- zerosizedweasle 11mo agoThey didn't ask them, "Do you hate AI because it is globalization 2.0?" They're guessing based on the dislike and fear about jobs.
- bediger4000 11mo agoI did not have the impression that "accelerating AI" is the Trump admin's top domestic fixation. I had the impression that lots of other were more important to them. Of course there's a certain amount of "kremlinology" needed to interpret Trump admin's utterances, given its relationship to facts.