The majority of U.S. adults don’t believe the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks, according to a new Mitre-Harris Poll released Tuesday.

  • @Dasnap
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    491 year ago

    The past decade has done an excellent job of making people cynical about any new technology. I find looking at what crypto bros are currently interested in as a good canary for what I should be suspicious of.

    • @iopq
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      321 year ago

      The vaccine saved millions of lives, yet people will be cynical despite reality

      • @Dasnap
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        101 year ago

        I feel like anti-vaccine groups have been around for a good chunk of time, but they certainly seemed to get a boost from the internet.

        • @expatriado
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          41 year ago

          the only boost they would get

          • @Dasnap
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            31 year ago

            (☞゚∀゚)☞

        • rayyyy
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          31 year ago

          It doesn’t help that big corporations promoted 100% hydrogenated Crisco as a healthy alternative to lard or the drug Thalidomide that caused horrible birth defects.
          People need to be informed but many are swamped with the task of making a living and constant social “guidance”.

      • GigglyBobble
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        Well, anti-vaxxers probably know more death among their family and friends making them cynical.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 year ago

          If more of your family and friends are dying why would you avoid the ounce of prevention? That doesn’t make sense

          • GigglyBobble
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            They wouldn’t attribute it to the virus but something like 5G radiation. And yes, it doesn’t make sense.

    • raktheundead
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      71 year ago

      It’s also worth noting that the same VCs who backed cryptocurrency have pivoted to generative AI. It’s all part of the same grift, just with different clothes.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Most major companies didn’t touch crypto with a 10ft pole, but they’ve leapt at the chance to use AI tech. I don’t think it’s the same grift at all personally.

        • raktheundead
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          11 year ago

          A lot of companies investigated cryptocurrency obliquely; “blockchain” was the hype word for several years in tech. And several of those companies had a serious sunk-cost fallacy going when they perpetuated their blockchain projects, despite blockchain only at best being a case of Worse Is Better, where a solution that sucks, but exists can be better than a perfect option that doesn’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I am really dissapointed that crypto became synonymous with speculative “investing.” The core blockchain technology seems like it could be useful for enhancing privacy online. However, the majority of groups loudly advertising that they use crypto are exploitative money grabs.

    • kitonthenet
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      11 year ago

      It doesn’t hurt that the same companies that did all the things that made people cynical about technologies are the ones perpetrating this round of BS