News Summary

• There are widespread fears that artificial intelligence will harm our social and emotional intelligence, empathy and sense of individual agency by 2035.
• In every area, respondents believed the effect of AI tools and systems over the next decade would be more negative than positive.
• In terms of the bigger picture, the researchers found that US adults expected AI to have a mixed impact on "the essence of being human" over the coming decade.
• Two in five (41%) said AI will provide as much good as it will harm, with 25% believing AI changes will be mostly for the worse.