Primary research analysis - Major theme

This section of my primary research questionnaire will discuss the answers regarding my major theme questions.

Firstly, I started with the following question "How much do you know about AI?", the answers to this questions vary and they are between 1 and 5 (1 being know nothing - 5 being knowing a lot), 2 of the participants know nothing about AI and 1 participants knows a lot, although the majority chose the numbers 2 which theoretically means not a lot. This suggests that not many are confident with their knowledge regarding artificial intelligence and most people do not know much about it.

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The following questions is about the trust level towards artificial intelligence, in other words how much do participants trust AI, surprisingly none of the participants fully trust AI, and it is evenly split between the following: Trust AI but not completely (8 people), Somewhat trust AI (7 people), barely trust AI (7 people) and the remaining 2 people do not trust AI at all. We can conclude from these answers that people are skeptical about artificial intelligence and find it hard to give it our complete trust.

The next question is quiet interesting, which looks as follows : "Would you trust self-driving cars to drive your family if their accident rates were lower?". The question is still tackling the amount of trust people have for AI, but this time circumstances are a bit different, in this case the AI performs better than humans at driving, so will people trust it this time? and yes quiet unsurprisingly people trust it more this time, with the majority saying yes to the previously stated question (66.67%)  and 25% said no, the rest had other answers which range from "depends if I am drunk" to "not until they are fully tested"

The next question is as follows : "After how many years would you fully trust AI?", the answer to this question varied a bit, with some people never trusting it (16%) and some people fully trusting it after 5 years (36%).

"What are you feelings towards AI and towards what it holds for the future?" the answers to this question were a bit varied which suggests mixed emotions towards AI and this means the prospect of AI future world makes people feel optimistic and excited however the polarizing nature of AI makes some people feel pessimistic concerned and unsure, the question remains whether these negative feelings with vanish with time as AI becomes more predominant or no.

Going further, " Does AI have any significant impact in your current life Yes / No (if not, after how many years do you think it will)?" Only 6 out of 23 answers stated yes, however, the rest stated no and their thought on the average for for number of years for AI to have some impact on them is 7 years. This proves that AI does not have any major impact on people's lives yet.

Next question is whether and when will AI replace people's jobs,  46.2% said that AI will replace their job after they retire, 34.6% said that AI can never replace their job, and only 19.2% said that AI will replace their job during their career, this shows that people do not trust AI's potential in this present time and they do not believe that AI can replace their job very easily, although they have a belief that after they retire AI will be much better and can potentially steal their previous job.

The chart below represents that answers to the following question : "Which of the following do you think would be the biggest benefit of future AI?" and many people chose advancements in healthcare, and the least one chosen was help protect privacy, this suggests that people want AI to help in sectors that aid human lives and not on the internet.

"Which of the following worries you the most?" Variety of answers. Suggesting that people have some degree of fear towards AI.

And finally , two very philosophical question to end with , will AI achieve consciousness? and Do you think that AI will destroy the world? the answers to these two were similar, the majority think not, some are not sure and the minority think that it will. What this suggests is that people do not think AI will ever surpass humans and believe that AI taking over the world is of fiction.