Despite Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming more mainstream, Australians are becoming less trusting of the technology.
The latest How Australians feel about the rise of AI survey found there had been a decline in public trust in the 12 months since the previous survey.
It found people believed that AI’s trustworthiness would get better over the next decade, however, people’s perceptions of AI trustworthiness compared to humans had fallen significantly.
“In 2023, 52 percent of people believed that AIs would become more trustworthy than typical humans in a decade. This year, that percentage fell to 37 percent,” the survey report stated.
It also found there was a strong “Compassion Gap” relating to AI, stating 74.7 percent of respondents believed that AI was worse than typical humans at being compassionate.
“A third believed that they lack the compassion of even the least compassionate humans.”
This year’s survey found was a growing sense AI was overtaking humans with respect to creativity, with 49 percent believing it was as least as creative as typical humans, and eight percent believing that AI had surpassed all humans.
It also revealed that around one in four respondents believed that if an AI becomes conscious, it should be afforded at least some level of human rights.
Download the full report: How Australians feel about the rise of AI
