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Just to update this chart: 1) AI salience has increased dramatically in the past week - increasing as much in the last week as the previous year combined 2) 80% of voters think it's either very or somewhat likely that AI will cause widespread job loss in the five to ten years 3) 64% of voters think it's either very or somewhat likely that AI could pose a threat to humanity's survival 4) Large bipartisan majorities back immediate government action on AI even when primed about risk from China
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Excited to be on Odd Lots to talk about the politics of AI. AI today is less important than it will ever be. Over the past year, AI rose in issue importance faster than any issue we track — it's now more important to voters than climate change, child care, and abortion. x.com/TheStalwart/st…
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Wow! It seems from this graph that the Coxon post wasn't actually that important, because the spike started earlier? Can you please annotate the graph with other events that might have been relevant, e.g. the three dribblings of info about the hugging face incident (the initial
Woah. Not my model at all. Have you seen issues jump in salience in polling like this before, besides obvious catastrophes
Moral panics aren't good times to do legislation. People just can't think properly. Yet it's exactly when people are excited enough to do it.
The speed of that shift is wild. Eighty percent feeling that level of uncertainty really puts the current anxiety into perspective.