In a new survey of over 2,000 US adults conducted days ago, Politico found that the vast majority of respondents would pull the plug on the whole AI buildout if they could.
The magazine presented participants with an intriguing hypothetical: if you were working on developing AI and started seeing signs that the tech could destroy humanity, would you keep going?
The answers were telling: only 38 percent said they would continue, while 62 percent said they would stop and would “hope that other labs see the same signs and also decide to stop.”
Of those who self-identified as Republicans, 55 percent agreed they would stop the buildout, while 66 percent of Democrats said the same. Even undecided voters agree, with 58 percent saying they would pull the plug. If the presidential election was an anti-AI candidate versus a pro-AI one, in other words, the latter would be crushed at the polls.
