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The Collective Intelligence Project bills itself as an organization that is steering transformative AI towards better outcomes for everyone. In its latest study, which involved a survey of people in 70 countries, it reports “the decisions shaping AI are made by a small number of people but the consequences reach everyone.” In the executive summary, the group said: “Through seven rounds of deliberation with more than 6,000 people across 70 countries, we have built recurring infrastructure to learn how the world actually lives with AI — what people use it for, whether they trust it, and how it is changing their daily lives.
“Every other month, we ask a representative sample of the globe a series of topical questions, using an AI-enabled deliberative interface that surfaces not just what people think, but why. These signals and trends reveal fast-moving structural shifts. 58 percent of people trust AI chatbots more than their elected representatives. Two thirds use AI for emotional support monthly. Three quarters are expected to use AI at work while believing it will make good jobs harder to find. AI reinforces beliefs more powerfully than social media, and people trust the tools while distrusting the companies that build them.”
