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 1.57 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,051 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-11 to 2026-08-26.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 1.57 |
|---|---|
| Median | 0.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.30 |
| N | 1,051 |
| Standard error | 0.071 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 129 out of 132 qualifying items and is at the 2.3 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 decreasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-11 to 2026-08-26. The estimated change over that period is -0.561 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.075, -0.047].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.917 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.671, -0.162]. 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
-1.813 -1.587 -1.325 0.965 8.607
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 1.813103 0.133386 13.593 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.005247 0.002448 -2.143 0.0323 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.298 on 1049 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.004361, Adjusted R-squared: 0.003412
F-statistic: 4.595 on 1 and 1049 DF, p-value: 0.0323