90% of people think AI will take away the jobs of other people

In July, we surveyed 1,600 Quartz readers--from 84 countries, though the majority of those who chose to take part came from the US--for their opinions about artificial intelligence, including about their perceptions of job loss to AI and robots. People were anxious; 90% of responders thought that up to half of jobs would be lost to automation within five years. That's a lot, more than most of the studies conclude, include studies conducted by Oxford University (pdf) and McKinsey Global Institute. But, paradoxically, we found that everyone thought it was going to happen to someone else. In our survey, 91% don't think there's any risk to their job and 94% don't think they'll be working for an AI boss--but 48% think they'll have an AI employee (all within five years).