AI is gaining usage. But there are some things Americans would be comfortable having AI do for them — and plenty of others they aren’t, recent CBS News polling found.
Given a list, the sorts of things Americans are comfortable with AI doing tend to be impersonal or even boring tasks, as well as those that less directly impact them, like proofreading or searching online.
But they’re less comfortable with AI doing things that have more immediate and perhaps more consequential impact on them: Making medical diagnoses, doing their taxes, handling their finances or driving their taxis.
It is newer technology, but there are only slight differences by age on these views.
If we look closer at the differences between expressed comfort and discomfort, for some of those items (for which a majority are uncomfortable) the difference is dramatic.
In any case, big
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