52% of Americans say they are more worried than enthusiastic about AI, up from 37% in 2021. Industry leaders are starting to talk openly about a crisis of confidence.
The numbers have turned around and are not recovering. According to Pew Research, 52% of Americans say they are more worried than enthusiastic about the growing importance of AI, up from 37% in 2021. An Economist/YouGov poll shows that more than 70% believe that technology is advancing too fast, and a CNBC poll reveals that a majority of 18-34 year olds do not trust any of the nine industry leaders to act responsibly.
The rejection has concrete translations. The Republican Senate committee has alerted AI companies to the fact that data centers in the United States threaten the party's results in Ohio. To defuse local opposition to the projects, technology companies are now attaching job guarantees, investments in water resources and educational endowments to their projects. In terms of uses, a fringe of young people is turning to objects deliberately devoid of AI — classic iPods sold at high prices, cassettes, CD players, compact film cameras.
An internally assumed diagnosis
Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, links the phenomenon to the lack of really convincing consumer products: it is necessary, according to him, to develop products that ordinary people can use. Dario Amodei, head of Anthropic, speaks of a crisis of confidence and acknowledges that the sector has not yet delivered on its great promises of benefits for the world. The fundamental problem lies in this asymmetry: the public absorbs the costs — threat to jobs, imposed functionalities — without receiving an equivalent personal gain.
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