There’s infighting among Silicon Valley insiders and elites about whether AI could kill us all and if frontier companies should slow down because of it.
How do the normies feel, though? You know, the everyday people whose lives AI leaders say will be forever changed for generations to come?
“Lukewarm” is how Jason Jones put it.
Every day since February 16, 2024, Jones, a computational social scientist at Stony Brook University, has surveyed 11 different Americans to ask whether they agree or disagree with the following statement: “I support further development of artificial intelligence.”
The sample size was dictated by budget. Jones spends…
