Is Everyone Using AI Better Than Me?

Artificial intelligence might be the only thing that Americans hate and/or fear as much as one another. Fun fact: According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, 55 percent of Americans believe AI—the technology that is supposed to cure cancer and usher in a 20-hour workweek—will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives. (Democrats and Republicans had a 56 percent and 55 percent unfavorable rating, respectively, in a March CNN survey.) And yet, like SSRIs, credit scores, social media, minoxidil, and GLP-1s, AI has crept into more corners of society than you could possibly imagine. It’s baked into processes you already use, priced into things you buy, and—despite whatever moral or ethical objections to AI that you’ve got—secretly being deployed by people you know and (think) you respect.