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 8113 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 The results in this PDF research article are, of course, out-of-date as compared to this autonomous, daily-updating, social science dashboard inator you are currently viewing.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
-4.9382 -0.7766 0.4170 1.0618 2.9978
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 0.002235 0.043134 0.052 0.959
Risk_Preference 0.193593 0.007469 25.921 <2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.596 on 8111 degrees of freedom
(2 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared: 0.0765, Adjusted R-squared: 0.07639
F-statistic: 671.9 on 1 and 8111 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
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