Niradata ran the largest ever survey on global attitudes to superintelligence (n=377,458). The question was:
Some companies are working on developing superintelligent AI (artificial intelligence) that can outperform humans in all tasks. Which comes closest to your view?
I think choosing to make the cut at “net support of rapid development” when people with even the slightest sense of “hey maybe let’s put some rules on the thing” get sorted into the “strict oversight” bucket is a weasely way of presenting these results. You could just as easily make the case that both “Pause/Stop” and “Continue” are matched at 38% of the vote.
Niradata ran the largest ever survey on global attitudes to superintelligence (n=377,458). The question was:
The headline result is this:
PauseAI UK has published a visualization of the full results on our website.
I think choosing to make the cut at “net support of rapid development” when people with even the slightest sense of “hey maybe let’s put some rules on the thing” get sorted into the “strict oversight” bucket is a weasely way of presenting these results. You could just as easily make the case that both “Pause/Stop” and “Continue” are matched at 38% of the vote.
Fair point. I just copied that from the original report, but I’ve removed it from our presentation of results.