Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of U.S. adults believe artificial intelligence will "eliminate more jobs than it creates," according to a Gallup survey. But, the same survey found that less than a quarter (23 percent) of people were "worried" or "very worried" automation would affect them personally. Notably, these figures vary depending on education. For respondents with only a four-year college degree or less, 28 percent were worried about AI taking their job; for people with at least a bachelor degree, that figure was 15 percent. These numbers tell a familiar story. They come from a Gallup survey of more than 3,000 individuals on automation and AI. New details were released this week, but they echo the findings of earlier reports. The newly released findings from Gallup's survey also show that by one measure, the use of AI is already widespread in the U.S. Nearly nine out of 10 Americans (85 percent) use at least one of six devices or services that use features of artificial intelligence, says Gallup. Eighty-four percent of people use navigation apps like Waze, and 72 percent use streaming services like Netflix. Forty-seven percent use digital assistants on their smartphones, and 22 percent use them on devices like Amazon's Echo.

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Re:Automation is good

[ShanghaiBill]

Why do we have so many homeless people?

Have you ever talked to any homeless people? Have you ever spent time working with the homeless, and helping them deal with their situations? If you do, you will soon understand that most homelessness is about mental health problems, not economics.

Over-educated idiots

[Actually, I do RTFA]

Apparently, the more education someone has, the less likely they think an AI will take their job. Ooops, wrong. The first jobs the AIs are coming for are in the legal and medical fields. Things like "driving a truck" require a lot of sensors. Things like "diagnose a disease" or "do legal research" require parsing the input a nurse/paralegal enters into the system.