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The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here | Compact

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Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.

Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror. Some observers have suggested that opposition to AI is due to poor PR from industry leaders. If tech titans hadn’t been so convinced that boasting of their apocalyptic powers was the best way to raise capital, the argument goes, then the American public would be on board. Chinese public opinion, for instance, is considerably more favorable. But these discrepancies can be read another way. The taste for liberty is not independent of culture and history. China…

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