After surveying 80,508 people across 159 countries and 70 languages, here is how Anthropic assesses the hopes people have for artificial intelligence. The survey asked:
whether they’re getting what they want
what they fear
what they do for a living
sentiment about AI overall.
Roughly a third of visions are about making room for life (more time, money, mental bandwidth). About a quarter revolve around using AI to help people do better, more fulfilling work.
About a fifth of responses are about becoming someone better (learning, healing, growing).
A smaller share want to make something (“creative expression”) or fix the world (“societal transformation”). Those that wanted societal transformation from AI often cited a vision for healthcare. People wanted AI to detect cancer earlier, accelerate drug discovery, or enable broad access.
Respondents in low and middle income countries were quick to cite the possibility that AI might break the association between educational quality and wealth.
Some of you might be encouraged: these are normal, human hopes for new technology.
And even if user beliefs about impact are subjective (people might think an innovation has one impact; it might not), the survey suggests people believe AI is having an impact.
About 81 percent of respondents said AI already has helped them fulfill their own stated visions for benefit.
Granted, those are subjective responses, and far from the quantifiable outcomes investors ultimately will expect. But in the near term, we will have to keep looking for value proxies.
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