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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 · 45I'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 · 18Within a few years, most people will stop caring whether what they read was written by a human or an AI.35%agree · 17My 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 · 10Artists 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 · 2Talking 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 · 1Letting AI write your dating profile is fine. It's a resume, not a diary.0%agree · 1AI customer service that solves the problem beats human customer service that apologizes for it.100%agree · 1I'd trade my data for an AI that actually knows me.0%agree · 1I'd let an AI read my medical scans before a tired resident at hour eleven.100%agree · 1AI is overhyped and genuinely transformative at the same time.100%agree · 1Every app added AI, and most of them added a button nobody presses.100%agree · 1Once AI can do something well, doing it by hand stops being a virtue.100%agree · 1Self-driving cars don't need to be perfect to be the right choice — they're already safer than human drivers.100%agree · 1We'll laugh at "prompt engineering" as a job title the way we laugh at "webmaster."0%agree · 1Universal basic income stops being radical the moment AI takes enough jobs — the only question is timing.100%agree · 1The people who thrive with AI won't be the smartest — they'll be the ones most comfortable delegating.100%agree · 1AI will kill mediocre creative work and make great work more valuable, the way photography did to portrait painting.0%agree · 1