Topics / AI & the future
Where people stand on ai & the future.
AI friends, AI homework, AI art, what's next — where people stand while it's all still being decided.
AI companies' current spending cannot be justified by the productivity gains so far.83%agree · 57The AI boom is the biggest capital misallocation in history — and it will still have been worth it.33%agree · 54Executive departures at AI companies tell you more about the industry than product launches do.78%agree · 45Within a few years, most people will stop caring whether what they read was written by a human or an AI.33%agree · 18I'd rather ask an AI than a search engine now, and I don't miss the ten blue links.44%agree · 18AI will make my job better, not take it.39%agree · 18My kids will have AI friends, AI tutors, and AI doctors, and they'll think our objections were quaint.40%agree · 15An AI friend that remembers everything about you is better than a distracted human one.8%agree · 13Parents should ban AI from homework entirely, even if the school allows it.69%agree · 13Governments should be allowed to ban open-source AI models on national-security grounds.40%agree · 10An AI that remembers everything about you across every conversation — and never forgets — is more dangerous than one that is simply very intelligent.67%agree · 3The risk that advanced AI could cause catastrophic harm to humanity deserves to be treated as seriously as climate change or nuclear weapons.100%agree · 2Surveillance cameras in public spaces make communities safer, and concerns about privacy are not a good enough reason to ban them.50%agree · 2Artists are right to be angry about training data, even if the technology was inevitable.100%agree · 2An AI therapist available at 3am beats a human one available in six weeks.50%agree · 2AI companions for lonely elderly people are a mercy, not a dystopia.50%agree · 2An AI tutor with infinite patience beats a distracted teacher with thirty kids.0%agree · 2If you can't tell whether AI wrote something, it doesn't matter whether AI wrote it.50%agree · 2Talking to an AI about a problem before talking to a person is becoming normal, and that's fine.50%agree · 2AI gets blamed for a flood of low-effort content that people were always going to make anyway.100%agree · 2Saying "please" to a chatbot says something good about you, not something confused.50%agree · 2Entry-level jobs teach people how to work — automating them away costs more than the salaries.100%agree · 2Half of learning AI at work is learning to double-check work you used to trust.100%agree · 2Using AI at work without telling anyone is fine — nobody discloses their calculator.50%agree · 2The economic benefits of the AI boom are reaching ordinary workers — not just tech investors and executives.0%agree · 1AI companies developing systems of human-level or greater intelligence have a responsibility to slow down — the potential risks outweigh the competitive benefits of moving fast.0%agree · 1Regularly using AI tools for thinking and writing makes people mentally weaker over time — not more capable.0%agree · 1Open-source AI models — ones anyone can download and modify — pose a greater risk to public safety than AI systems kept under the control of a single company.0%agree · 1Concerns about AI safety are being used to slow down competitors — they are not a genuine response to real risks.0%agree · 1AI models that are open to the public are more dangerous than closed, proprietary ones — and governments are right to treat them differently.0%agree · 1Treating an AI system with courtesy — saying please and thank you — is a reasonable habit, even if the AI has no feelings.100%agree · 1AI agents that can do the work of entry-level employees will ultimately create more opportunities for young workers than they eliminate.0%agree · 1AI safety regulation should be handled by a private partnership among the major AI labs rather than by the federal government.0%agree · 1Talking to AI all day is changing how people talk to each other — shorter, blunter, more like prompts.100%agree · 1An AI that watched everything you do for a year would know you better than your family does — and that's not an argument against it.0%agree · 1A world where everyone has a brilliant assistant is more equal, not less — the rich always had staff.100%agree · 1Autocorrect and autocomplete were already AI — we've been relying on it for years without the panic.0%agree · 1Grief tech — an AI that talks like someone you lost — is a comfort some people need, not a line nobody should cross.100%agree · 1"Written by a human" will be a marketing label within five years, like "organic."100%agree · 1AI "detectors" punish good writers more than they catch cheaters.0%agree · 1