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Over 70% of US adults worry about AI displacing human workers.
Some tech leaders have already forecasted huge job displacement.
Over 75% of respondents are concerned about "political chaos."
The majority of Americans are concerned about the potential impacts of AI across a number of key issues, including the job market and political stability, according to a recent survey conducted by Reuters and Ipsos.
The survey, which polled 4,446 US adults last week, found that 71% of respondents said they fear that AI will "permanently" displace an unacceptably high number of American workers. The finding follows closely on the heels of a paper published by researchers from Microsoft, which outlined the job categories most likely to be automated by AI, with information-processing and communication roles, like translators and customer service representatives, at the top of the list.
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Numerous leading figures in the tech industry, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy have also predicted that the AI tools their companies are working to build could displace a significant number of human workers.
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