Americans Really Want More AI Regulations: POLL

Most Americans overwhelmingly support more artificial intelligence regulations, according to a Johns Hopkins University survey released Monday.

The university’s latest poll shows that over 70% of Americans want the right to interact with a human being rather than AI💻Technology in medical, legal, educational and government settings.

“What was surprising to us in this new poll was that daily users of AI, and people who view AI positively, also want regulation,” Christopher Honey, a computational cognitive neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins, said in a statement.

The survey also suggests that Americans’ overall feelings towards AI were divided, as roughly one third felt positive, one third negative and one third mixed. The poll found that 80% of skilled daily AI users felt optimistic about the 💻Technology, compared to 24% of respondents who have only attempted using it a handful of times.

The survey shows that the majority of Americans are broadly in favor of “right to a human” laws, which is legislation that would enable them to opt out of interactions with AI. Of those surveyed, 79% want to deal with humans in medical care scenarios, while 76% wanted the same for legal proceedings and 74% for education.