How well does Stated Risk Preference predict Americans' AI Support?
General Risk Question from Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences. For more detail, please read Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans.
On a seven-point agreement scale, randomly selected American adults responded to the item: I support further development of artificial intelligence. From 2024-02-16 forward, I have collected 5179 responses.
I have presented detailed methods in Americans' Support for AI Development - Measured Daily with Open Data and Methods. The results in this PDF research article are, of course, out-of-date as compared to this autonomous, daily-updating, social science dashboard inator you are currently viewing. Last updated on .
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Call: lm(formula = Support ~ Risk_Preference, data = .) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -4.9967 -0.6239 0.3761 1.1218 2.8674 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 0.132581 0.052184 2.541 0.0111 * Risk_Preference 0.186416 0.008974 20.774 <2e-16 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 Residual standard error: 1.542 on 5177 degrees of freedom (2 observations deleted due to missingness) Multiple R-squared: 0.07695, Adjusted R-squared: 0.07677 F-statistic: 431.6 on 1 and 5177 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
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