Exciting, Useful, Worrying, Futuristic: Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence in 8 Countries

As the influence and use of artificial intelligence (AI) have grown As the influence and use of artificial intelligence (AI) have grown and its transformative potential has become more apparent, many and its transformative potential has become more apparent [32, 54], questions have been raised regarding the economic, political, social, many questions have been raised regarding the economic, political, and ethical implications of its use. Public opinion plays an important social, and ethical implications of its use [27]. The development role in these discussions, influencing product adoption, commercial and application of AI increasingly features in media, academic, development, research funding, and regulation. In this paper we industrial, regulatory, and public discussions [18, 23, 28], with active present results of an in-depth survey of public opinion of artificial debate on wide-ranging issues such as the impact of automation intelligence conducted with 10,005 respondents spanning eight on the future of work [8, 50, 52], the interaction of AI with human countries and six continents. We report widespread perception rights issues such as privacy and discrimination [1, 4, 10, 16], the that AI will have significant impact on society, accompanied by ethics of autonomous weapons [53, 59], and the development and strong support for the responsible development and use of AI, and availability of dual-use technologies such as synthetic media that also characterize the public's sentiment towards AI with four key may be used for either benevolent or nefarious purposes [48].