A Brookings Institution survey offers fresh fodder for the debate, showing opinion is heavily tilted against AI at a time companies are increasingly looking for ways to include it in everything they do. Some 38% of respondents said AI would reduce jobs, while only 12% thought it would create positions, according to an online national survey of 1,535 adult internet users conducted May 9-11 by the Washington-based think tank. Men were more likely than women to say AI would cause job losses. By age, the group most concerned about that possibility was 25-to-34-year-olds: Just 10% said the employment impact would be positive and more than four times that expected a negative fallout. While the U.S. is seen as the global leader in AI, there's concern China is closing the gap, the Brookings survey showed.

A Brookings Institution survey offers fresh fodder for the debate, showing opinion is heavily tilted against AI at a time companies are increasingly looking for ways to include it in everything they do. Some 38% of respondents said AI would reduce jobs, while only 12% thought it would create positions, according to an online national survey of 1,535 adult internet users conducted May 9-11 by the Washington-based think tank. Men were more likely than women to say AI would cause job losses. By age, the group most concerned about that possibility was 25-to-34-year-olds: Just 10% said the employment impact would be positive and more than four times that expected a negative fallout. While the U.S. is seen as the global leader in AI, there's concern China is closing the gap, the Brookings survey showed.