Q2.2 - What is the best entity to regulate AI?

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AI” Government or treaty be e ectively should not be
Agency regulated regulated

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Q2.7 - When thinking about how AI will change the job landscape, what careers and professions

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Q2.6 - When thinking about how AI will change the job landscape, what careers and professions

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 Q2.8 - Do you believe there is a threshold in the evolution of AI after which humans cannot take
back control of the artificial intelligence they’ve created?

41%
40%

35%

30%

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6%

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Yes, de nitely Yes, probably No, probably not No, de nitely not

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 Q2.4 - Which 3 sectors of the economy do you think will experience the greatest percentage of job
loss due to AI in the next 5 years?

Customer service 77%

Art, design, or content creation 41%

Administrative and support services 39%

Marketing and advertising 23%

Manufacturing and production 22%

Retail 20%

Law or legal services 16%

Financial services and banking 16%

Data and research analytics 16%

Transportation 10%

Technology 7%

Healthcare 6%

Education 4%

Agriculture 3%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65% 70% 75%

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 Q2.5 - Which 3 sectors will experience the greatest percentage of productivity growth due to AI in
the next 5 years?

Technology 62%

Data and research analytics 44%

Healthcare 34%

Art, design, or content creation 29%

Manufacturing and production 21%

Marketing and advertising 19%

Law or legal services 19%

Education 18%

Customer service 17%

Financial services and banking 13%

Agriculture 8%

Administrative and support services 8%

Transportation 6%

Retail 1%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60%

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 Q2.1 - Which of the following measures would you most highly recommend the United States use to
regulate AI?
16%
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14%
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regulatory transparency liability data ethical international independent passes an "AI cybersecurity above; AI
agencies that and frameworks to protection and guidelines for cooperation to auditing of AI Limits Law and resilience should not be
oversee AI explainability determine privacy laws AI establish algorithms standards for regulated.
for AI systems responsibility consistent and conduct AI systems
global impact
standards assessments

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 Q2.3_1 - What percentage of human tasks do you believe AI technology will perform at or above
the level of a typical human today?

38%

35%
35%

30%

25%

20%

15% 14%

10%

5%
5%
3%
2%
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 Q2.3_2 - What percentage of human tasks do you believe AI technology will perform at or above
the level of a typical human in 5 years?

26%

25%
23%

20%

16%
15% 14%

10%

6%
5%
5%
3%
3% 3%

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 Q2.10 - On a scale of 1 to 10, how concerned are you about the ability of society to keep up with
generative AI-created misinformation in elections, medicine, or other realms of society?

25%
25%

20%
20%

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13%

11%
10% 9%
8%
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 Q2.11 - Which of the following potential impacts of increased AI usage concerns you the most?

42%
40%

30%

22%
20%
15%

10%
10%
6% 6%

0%
Bias and discrimination Societal disruption due to Unequal access to new AI Over-regulation of these Existential threats to Increased carbon
resulting from awed mass unemployment tools emerging technologies humanity from emissions from running AI
data all-powerful AI

Q2.12 - AI is most likely to ____________ racial, gender, and economic disparities.

62%
60%

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25%

20%
13%

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increase decrease have no e ect on

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 Q2.14 - Who do you trust the most to deliver AI with a positive impact?
58%

50%

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30%

20%

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0%
Elon Musk Sam Altman Sundar Pichai Mark Joe Biden Donald Trump Ron DeSantis Margrethe Jacinda Ardern None of the
Zuckerberg Vestager above

Q2.15 - How optimistic or pessimistic are you about where you think we will land with AI in the end?
47%

40%

30%

19%
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10%

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Extremely optimistic Somewhat optimistic Neither optimistic nor Somewhat pessimitic Extremely pessimistic
pessimistic

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 Q2.13 - In 5 words or fewer, if you were in charge, what action would you take to move the next era
of AI in a positive direction?

legislation guidelines policy responsible

framework standard teach
liabilitytransparency
training
critical encourage

make educate ethics improve

strong
limitation industry focus enact expert
collaboration
government

regulatepublic
computation ensure prevent

explain
global

data
protect
interaction

harm
interpret

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principles

regulation
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privacy mandate control
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personal build
tool equal human
generate
mitigate

agency
education
dataset capabilities easy effectively

require ownership

study model
ethical
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regulatory
making
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establish
infrastructure trustworthy

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