THE AI PERCEPTION GAP: Across 71 scenarios, AI experts (N=119) and the public (N=1100) have differing views on the risks, benefits, and value of AI. More importantly, AI experts discount the influence of risks stronger than the public does when forming their value judgments

We ran a survey comparing what 119 AI researchers and 1,100 regular people expect from AI across a large array of topics, from doomsday to optimistic scenarios, in the next decade. Across mopst scenarios, academic experts generally anticipated higher probabilities of occurrence, perceived lower risks, and reported greater benefits than the public, while also expressing positive overall evaluations of AI.