What people think about AI's potential will come as a surprise

But it's becoming clear that this type of dystopian view of artificial intelligence is out of phase with humans' real-world expectations and hopes for AI. People know this for two reasons: The first has to do with results of a consumer survey we recently fielded; the second has to do with the power of broccoli (I'll get to that in a moment). Consumers, it turns out, may love dystopian fiction about AI's impact (going all the way back to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"), but they firmly believe that, in real life, AI will actually make the world a much better place. That's what we found from an independent global survey we commissioned earlier this year, assessing the public's attitude towards intelligent machines. Not only did it reveal that most people were in favour of AI technology, but they see it as bringing huge potential benefit.