1、What does the public think about AI?UK,2024Jonathan Dupont,Denise Baron,Amy Price,Michela Arena&Seb WrideJune 2024ContentsSummary3Foreword5Today6How do people feel about AI?7Do people understand how AI works?10How are UK adults using AI today?12Opportunities15Benefits16At Work20Health22Concerns24Ris

2、ks25Misinformation and Deepfakes27Automation30Future34Artificial General Intelligence35Superintelligence38Policy40How should the Government react?41International Competition44SummaryThe last 12 months have seen Artificial Intelligence(AI)and the discourse around it continue torapidly evolve.Followin

3、g up on last years research,we ran four extensive nationally representative polls ofadults across the US and the UK,asking the public their views on a range of AI issues:theirfeelings towards it,how they use AI today,how they expected it to evolve,and what theywanted the Government to do in response

4、.This report explores the findings from our UK surveywork.TodayThe most commonly chosen emotion by UK residents for their feelings around AI wascuriosity-but they were also around a fifth more likely to choose negative emotionscompared to last year.Only around a third(31%)of UK adults said that they

5、 were confident they could explainhow modern AI models worked.In practice,people still seemed to be unsure aboutthe AI models relative strengths and weaknesses:thinking that they were best atmaths,and weakest at sounding sympathetic.Only around 13%of UK residents are currently using LLM based chatbo

6、ts regularly.Thatsaid,awareness of ChatGPT specifically has more than doubled in the last year.UsesWhile UK adults thought accelerating science and improving economic productivitycould be important benefits of AI,they were much less sure if they would benefitdirectly-just 5%thought it was likely to