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How well does Stated Risk Preference predict Americans' AI Support?
The current data support the following:
- Stated Risk Preference is a statistically significant predictor of AI Support.
- Higher Stated Risk Preference is associated with greater AI Support.
- Results update daily.
- Based on responses from daily samples of American adults.
- Aggregated over the entire data.
- Data collection began: 2024-02-16.
- Most recent data collected on: 2026-04-05.
- Total Observations: 8566.
Methods, briefly
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 8566 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 The results in this PDF research article are, of course, out-of-date as compared to this autonomous, daily-updating, social science dashboard inator you are currently viewing.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 .
Do you like p-values, standard errors and such? Inspect the collapsed details below to view the regression results that support the statements above.
Yes, you may see and use the raw survey data.
Call:
lm(formula = Support ~ Risk_Preference, data = .)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-4.9192 -0.7538 0.4405 1.0808 3.0232
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) -0.023157 0.042276 -0.548 0.584
Risk_Preference 0.194235 0.007329 26.502 <2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.603 on 8564 degrees of freedom
(2 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared: 0.07579, Adjusted R-squared: 0.07569
F-statistic: 702.3 on 1 and 8564 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
This page last automatically updated on 2026-04-06.