“101 Humans of New York on the Risks of AI” by Corm

Nobody has ever done an in person door to door survey about AI risks[1]. What do people really think about AI? Like really? There have been some surveys on the risks from AI. But there's a real difference between looking at numbers on page vs. the feeling of talking to our fellow humans. I[2] asked 101 people what they thought about the impact of AI. Approximately half of the responses were from ringing doorbells, and half were from asking people out and about[3]. Every single one of these was in person face to face. Around 10 respondents only spoke Spanish and were surveyed in Spanish. Here are the results. The top level results are very strong when it comes to showing interest in regulating AI. Everything else will be reflections on the results/process and all the qualitative data I picked up from this process. Thoughts on some Specific Questions This question was the longest and most complex question. I basically have to read out all of the options since it's not on a simple scale. I decided to first split it on whether someone thinks superhuman AI should be developed at all, and then only give the more granular [...] ---Outline:(01:01) Thoughts on some Specific Questions(03:51) Takeaways(05:00) Surveying is Inherently Biased(08:42) People are Weird and Surprising(11:03) You Can Do This Too! The original text contained 16 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: April 8th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BCiDwMbvq5JRNAwwt/101-humans-of-new-york-on-the-risks-of-ai --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.