The survey was conducted as part of the Institute’s annual report on the AI ​​Index, an influential report on the state of the entire industry. Despite this negative result, this report also shows that policy makers’ interest in AI is growing, and that the technology itself is driving scientific discovery forward.

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The 36 percent figure has an important caveat: it’s only about the artificial intelligence making its own decisions That is, a neural network makes ultimately catastrophic choices on its own rather than human abuse of artificial intelligence, a growing threat that the report also addresses, of course.

The number of incidents and discussions about AI has increased 26 times since 2012. Notable events in 2022 include a fake video of the capture of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the use of technology by American prisons to eavesdrop on inmates’ phone conversations.
– says the report.

This growth reflects both broader human use of AI technologies and awareness of the potential for abuse, the researchers say. In other words, there are other ways AI can and is already doing harm from its own hands.

• Despite these concerns, only 41 percent of researchers believe AI should be regulated.
• 57 percent of researchers believe that advances in recent research pave the way for artificial universal intelligence.
• 73 percent of researchers believe that artificial intelligence could soon lead to revolutionary changes in society, which is generally obvious.