QUESTIONNAIRE

Name (Optional): Age:

Course/Year: Gender:

PART I.

Please check (✔) the box that corresponds to your opinion to the statements.

1 – Strongly Disagree
2 – Disagree
3 – Agree
4 – Strongly Agree

A. SECURITY 1 2 3 4
1. I will lose my privacy.
2. I feel like there will be more surveillance.
3. I will soon lose my job to a computer or robot.
Computer AI will only be beneficial to its users if it is owned by
4.
humans, and not by big companies.
The most powerful will try to use AI and technology to increase
5.
their power and not to the benefit of society.

B. HUMAN AGENCY* 1 2 3 4
I will lose control of my life, which will remain in the hands of a
1.
small group of experts.
I will depend on AI and not learning to be algorithmically
2.
literate.
I will stop thinking or caring about ‘control’ and just delegate
3.
everything to ‘the system'.
AI is not intelligent, it is human-made, and therefore biased and
4.
unreliable.
AI will control many of my background choices with great
5.
implicating effects.
*human agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices

C. HUMAN CAPABILITIES 1 2 3 4
I will have better life because AI will make some things easier for
1.
me.
I will be more dependent on AI to the extent that my natural
2.
intelligence would be diminished.
 I will spend even more time with machines than we do with
3.
talking with each other.
4. My ethical capabilities lag far behind my technical capabilities.
Increasing ‘datafication’ of work and our lives as a whole will
5. further increase the pressure we feel to reach an unrealistic
perfection.

PART II.
Have the following technologies had a positive impact, a negative impact, or no impact either way on you
and your career?

TECHNNOLOGIES Positive Negative No impact No answer

impact impact either way
Industrial robots
Word processing or spreadsheet software
Email or social media
Software that manages your daily work
schedule or routine
Smartphones
Technologies that help customers serve
themselves on their own

If robots and computers were able to perform most of the jobs currently being done by humans, do you
think the following are likely or not likely to happen as a result?
STATEMENTS Yes, likely No, not likely No answer
Inequality between rich and poor would be much
worse than it is today
People would have a hard time finding things to do
with their lives
People would be able to focus less on work and more
on the things that really matter to them in life
The economy as a whole would be much more
efficient
The economy would create many new, better-paying
jobs for humans
Humans would find their jobs more meaningful and
fulfilling since machines would mostly be doing
things that humans find unappealing