There is chatter going around the Australian software sector that the federal government has conducted extensive polling to gauge Australians attitudes to generative AI.
The chatter says the polling confirms fear and loathing are dominant. Australians see robots taking their jobs and then ruling the world, before making humans extinct.
Realpolitech asked the office of Industry and Science minister Ed Husic to confirm whether the polling had taken place and got no reply. That’s not at all surprising.
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