Concern about AI spikes following OpenAI hacking incident
Within that, people who say they are very concerned increased from 28% to 35%. The number of people saying that AI systems are behaving in ways their developers didn’t intend increased from 28% in late June to 35% earlier this week. The shift was mostly attributable to people moving from saying this was likely to happen to saying it’s already happening.These shifts are both outside the cross-wave margin of error, and we believe this shows that the spike in concern is correlated with news of the hacking incident.
- ▪Within that, people who say they are very concerned increased from 28% to 35%.
- ▪The number of people saying that AI systems are behaving in ways their developers didn’t intend increased from 28% in late June to 35% earlier this week.
- ▪The shift was mostly attributable to people moving from saying this was likely to happen to saying it’s already happening.These shifts are both outside the cross-wave margin of error, and we believe this shows that the spike in concern is c
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Concern about AI spikes following OpenAI hacking incident Americans increasingly say AI models are behaving in unintended ways Aug 03, 202622ShareFollowing reporting two weeks ago on the hacking of HuggingFace by OpenAI models, concern about AI’s impact on society jumped, and more people than ever are saying AI models have gone rogue.In a survey that went into the field two days after reporting on the incident broke:72% of Americans – nearly three quarters – say they’re somewhat or very concerned about AI’s growing impact on society, an increase from 66% in late June and early July. Within that, people who say they are very concerned increased from 28% to 35%.
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