Machines that subjugate humans and take over
world domination - in many science fiction films, artificial intelligence is
portrayed as something dangerous. But what do adults in Ireland think and
feel about this topic? In order to find this out iReach Insights conducted a
nationally representative survey on 1,001 adults in Ireland on
their attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This research revealed, that only 24% of the
adults in Ireland consider themselves as being knowledgeable about Artificial
Intelligence. This lack
of knowledge seems to increase by age: twice as many of those
aged 55+ (29%) have stated that they have no knowledge at all compared to those
aged 18-34 (15%).
Nevertheless, over half of the population
(55%) believe that Artificial Intelligence already has a noticeable impact on
their daily life or will have at least within the next 5 years. This prospect
seems to evoke mixed feelings in the population, and particularly among the
women. Twice as many females (22%) than males (10%) indicated that they are
scared by an AI future. In contrast, three times as many males (27%) as
females (13%) stated that they are optimistic about the prospect of an AI
based future.
Top 5 benefits that people believe could be
positive effects of an AI based future are the following: 1. Dangerous tasks
done by machines rather than humans (56%), 2. Improvement of areas that help
humans, e.g. medicine or police (50%), 3. Tedious tasks being done by machines
(44%), 4. Reduction in human error (40%), and 5. Less accidents (31%).
On the other hand, Top 5 negative effects that
people assume could be resulting from an AI based future are: 1. Higher
unemployment rate (54%), 2. Less human face-to-face interaction (52%), 3.
Hacking attacks (52%), 4. Losing control over personal information/ data
(43%), and 5. ‘Machine learning’ replacing ‘human learning’ (42%).
Moreover, participants where asked what AI
applications they would personally like to use, if they could afford it. The
following applications have been cited as the types of AI people in
Ireland would be likely to use: 1. Devices (e.g. robots) that clean the home
on their own (46%), 2. Smart home devices, e.g. smart thermostat or voice
responsive light switch (44%) and 3. Systems that provide home security, e.g.
unlocking doors for approved people (33%).
In fact, 80% believe that smart homes will
become more popular in the future.
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