News Summary

• According to the 2026 Yale Climate survey, 68 percent of Americans now believe that climate change is occurring, and 47 percent believe it is harming the United States now.
• In contrast to climate change, artificial intelligence is a new and emerging threat.
• We are all more familiar with the weather than artificial intelligence.
• Although public perception doesn’t predict how much impact a risk will eventually have on a society, it does influence how much time, energy, and money we put into mitigating the problem.