Silicon Valley celebrates artificial intelligence and robotics as fields that have the power to improve people's lives, through inventions like driverless cars and robot carers for the elderly.
That message isn't getting through to the rest of the country, where more than 70% of Americans express wariness or concern about a world where machines perform many of the tasks done by humans, according to Pew Research.
The findings have wide-reaching implications for technology companies working in these fields and indicates the need for greater public hand-holding.
"Ordinary Americans are very wary and concerned about the growing trend in automation and place a lot of value in human decision-making," said Aaron Smith, the author of the research, which surveyed more than 4,000 US adults. "They are not incredibly excited about machines taking over those responsibilities."
Once robots are perfected the 99% can be eliminated so they stop bumming the 1% out.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday October 06 2017, @07:11AM
The problem is that I don't think all this technology is actually going to increase our privacy; it will sharply decrease it, by design. Current technology is bad enough, but imagine all the spying and data collection that will be built into this new abomination of a system. Also, will all this software be free (as in freedom)? Again, I seriously doubt it. That's why it is useless trash.