Battle Of Sexes Hits AI As Wall Street Giant Finds Whopping 31-Point Gender Gap

Women are souring on artificial intelligence while men remain upbeat, a new survey found.

A 31-point gender gap separated how American men and women viewed AI in late September, according to a Morgan Stanley survey of 2,000 consumers first reported by Axios on Thursday. Women with negative views were more likely than men to cite concerns about nearby data centers and AI progressing too quickly.

“We cannot let the AI gender gap become an entrenched chasm,” Bridget Griswold, CEO of LeanIn, told Axios.

Morgan Stanley asked respondents whether their overall view of AI was positive or negative and then subtracted the negative share from the positive share to measure net sentiment on the technology, Axios reported. The bank has run the study since April.

Men came in at positive 30 percent, while women landed at negative one percent, according to Axios. Women’s sentiment has slipped from positive six percent in April, while men’s has held roughly steady.

Among respondents with negative views, women, at 44 percent, were more likely than men, at 36 percent, to say, “I do not want a data center built near my home,” Axios reported.

Meanwhile, women were three percentage points more likely than men to respond that they disliked AI on the premise that “it is developing too quickly without enough safeguards,” according to Axios.

Morgan Stanley and Lean In did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Other polling found the same split.

Some 33 percent of women expected AI to harm them personally over the next two decades, while 17 percent expected it to help, a June 17 Pew Research Center study found