The most common fear Russians experience in connection with artificial intelligence is job loss. This is demonstrated by a study by the Pro-Vision agency, the results of which were reviewed by socialbites.ca.
In other words, the rate of fear of losing one’s job in the structure of neurophobia is 58%. Then comes the fear of hostility: around 3% of viewers expect artificial intelligence to rise up and start a war against humanity. Another 2.3% of users fear that artificial intelligence and neural networks will spiral out of control and produce wrong and dangerous results in their work. One in three users expresses their concerns about AI “in general” without specifying it. Therefore, only the loss of jobs seriously worries many Russians. Another third are afraid of the unknown, meaning they experience neophobia, not neurophobia. All other horrors are the result of diving too deep into popular culture, where science fiction and cyberpunk have not given up their position.
Fear of artificial intelligence affects men and women equally. However, users without a permanent partner are twice as likely to experience increased anxiety: 31% versus 69% for married people.
Older people are also much more likely to distrust neural networks. Thus, 71% of users over 40 write about the dangers of AI, but the proportion of seniors over 60 is lower than in the 40-59 age group (32% versus 39%, respectively).
In the context of the regions of Russia, the maximum participation of the audience in the discussions about the dangers of artificial intelligence and neural networks was noted in Moscow (participation index – 132.19). Karelia (47.93) took the second place. In the third place is Vologda Oblast (45,54).
Interestingly, the top 10 were mainly Central Russia and Northern Russia regions: St. Petersburg, Udmurtia, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad and Arkhangelsk regions. The lowest rates were recorded in the North Caucasus and the Urals.
“When we examined the dynamic indicators of neurophobia, we saw that both the number of arguments and the “degree” of the discussion gradually decreased. There has been some calm this spring after high-profile discussions about how robots will put us all out of work, and posts on the subject have become more rare and restrained. “We can conclude that this will be the case until the next high-profile event in this field, for example, the emergence of a groundbreaking artificial intelligence technology or a brilliant statement from opinion leaders,” said Vladimir Vinogradov, CEO of Pro-Vision Communications.
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