A quarter of Canadians believe artificial intelligence tools are bad for society, according to a Leger poll.
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25% of respondents from both countries agreed that AI tools are bad for society, while only 36% of Canadians said these new tools are good for society.
The majority of respondents, 39% of Canadians and 43% of Americans, chose not to answer the question or did not know the answer to the question.
Many Canadians fear artificial intelligence, with more than seven in 10 fearing fraud or hacking and believing these tools threaten human jobs.
Three out of four Canadians are concerned about the lack of empathy and emotion around these new technologies.
However, the majority of survey respondents (65%) have never used an AI tool.
This survey follows the launch of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence text generator last November. Google also launched its chatbot called Bard a few weeks ago.
The survey was conducted between January 20 and January 29, 2023 with a representative sample of 1,539 Canadians and 1,000 Americans.
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