We are researchers from Johns Hopkins University who wanted to measure American attitudes toward specific AI regulations. So we ran a poll, with SurveyUSA as our partner, to collect the data from a nationally representative sample, and we built a data-explorer to share it. We included questions about where people trust or do not trust AI, and how they expect AI to alter power, inequality, and the meaningfulness of work. There is also a quiz to try, if (a) you want to locate your own AI attitudes relative to the population, or (b) if you're just one of those people who love taking quizzes.
The data explorer on the site lets you break down the results by age, political identity, and other demographics. And the data and the questionnaire are downloadable, so you can break down the results any way you prefer. Happy to say more about the methods and motivation.
choney•1h ago
Like in most prior polling, only about 1/3 of Americans had positive sentiment toward AI (and 1/3 were negative and 1/3 mixed). But people who use AI daily are much more positive than the broader population. Which I think means that the HN crowd is more positive than most of the USA about AI?