TY - GEN
T1 - U.S. Public opinion on the governance of artificial intelligence
AU - Zhang, Baobao
AU - Dafoe, Allan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/2/7
Y1 - 2020/2/7
N2 - Arti.cial intelligence (AI) has widespread societal implications, yet social scientists are only beginning to study public attitudes toward the technology. Existing studies. nd that the public's trust in institutions can play a major role in shaping the regulation of emerging technologies. Using a large-scale survey (N=2000), we examined Americans' perceptions of 13 AI governance challenges as well as their trust in governmental, corporate, and multistakeholder institutions to responsibly develop and manage AI. While Americans perceive all of the AI governance issues to be important for tech companies and governments to manage, they have only low to moderate trust in these institutions to manage AI applications.
AB - Arti.cial intelligence (AI) has widespread societal implications, yet social scientists are only beginning to study public attitudes toward the technology. Existing studies. nd that the public's trust in institutions can play a major role in shaping the regulation of emerging technologies. Using a large-scale survey (N=2000), we examined Americans' perceptions of 13 AI governance challenges as well as their trust in governmental, corporate, and multistakeholder institutions to responsibly develop and manage AI. While Americans perceive all of the AI governance issues to be important for tech companies and governments to manage, they have only low to moderate trust in these institutions to manage AI applications.
KW - AI governance
KW - Public opinion
KW - Public trust
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U2 - 10.1145/3375627.3375827
DO - 10.1145/3375627.3375827
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85082172898
T3 - AIES 2020 - Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
SP - 187
EP - 193
BT - AIES 2020 - Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 3rd AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, AIES 2020, co-located with AAAI 2020
Y2 - 7 February 2020 through 8 February 2020
ER -