Infographic: Americans Fear the AI Apocalypse

One day, robots will take over and it's going to be "bad" to "very bad". According to a survey conducted by Oxford University's Center for the Governance of AI, many Americans fear a future where mechanisms of AI become too intelligent. When asked what kind of impact high-level machine intelligence would have on humanity, 34 percent of respondents thought it would be negative, with 12 percent going for the option "very bad, possibly human extinction". Only 27 percent of respondents believed in a positive outcome, 21 percent thought AI wouldn't change the future much and 18 percent said they didn't know what impact AI would have. When ask to consider a negative future outcome of AI technology, Americans ranked the AI apocalypse as more catastrophic than the possible failure to address climate change, even though respondents said that it was less likely to happen.