NRI 2023: Understanding Public Perception – Generative AI and its Regulatory Considerations
Global Counsel’s surveys found public awareness of generative AI to be strikingly high for a novel technology, with around 9 in 10 in the UK, US and Germany claiming to have heard of it. This awareness is largely due to media coverage of dramatic forecasts of its risks, as familiarity was still nascent, with older adults were much less likely to have used the technology (14% of German adults aged 55+ having used ChatGPT compared to 57% of 18-24s). Also there were significant levels of misunderstanding about its functionality and a conflation with other technologies.
