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 6767 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 The results in this PDF research article are, of course, out-of-date as compared to this autonomous, daily-updating, social science dashboard inator you are currently viewing.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
-5.0029 -0.6657 0.3791 0.9971 2.9073
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 0.092653 0.046049 2.012 0.0443 *
Risk_Preference 0.191025 0.007887 24.220 <2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.554 on 6765 degrees of freedom
(2 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared: 0.07979, Adjusted R-squared: 0.07966
F-statistic: 586.6 on 1 and 6765 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
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