Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 141
An Artificial General Intelligence should have the same rights as a human being. (Artificial General Intelligence refers to a computer system that could learn to complete any intellectual task that a human being could.)
American adults' average (mean) response was 1.59 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 939 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-11 to 2026-08-06.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 1.59 |
|---|---|
| Median | 0.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.34 |
| N | 939 |
| Standard error | 0.076 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 121 out of 123 qualifying items and is at the 1.6 percentile.
Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.
Monthly Trend
Observed Trend
Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-11 to 2026-08-06. The estimated change over that period is -0.527 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.063, 0.009].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -2.212 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.463, 0.039]. This short-window annualized number is provided for reference, but the observed-period change above is the primary trend estimate.
Call:
lm(formula = response_value ~ days_since_start, data = model_data)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-1.836 -1.606 -1.370 1.212 8.649
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 1.836010 0.147168 12.476 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.006056 0.003140 -1.929 0.0541 .
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.335 on 937 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.003954, Adjusted R-squared: 0.002891
F-statistic: 3.72 on 1 and 937 DF, p-value: 0.05408