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Total Participants Surveyed 6295
BEFORE THE EXPLANATION
Number of participants who said they knew what AI was 2,259
They did not know what AI was 4036
They did not know what Agents were 6,268
They knew what agents were 27
They did not know what AI communities were 6,294
They knew what AI communities were 1
FEAR OF AI (BEFORE)
Not afraid about AI before explanation 4,895
Feared Developments before explanation 291
Said they did not have any feelings about AI before. 1109
Of the 4895 on B14, #Of people said AI Not Advanced Enough to Pose Threat 1756
AFTER THE EXPLANATION AI KNOWLEDGE PIE
Number of Participants who claimed to know what AI was after the explanation 6215
Continued to Deny knowledge of what AI was 80
FEAR OF AI (AFTER)
Feared developments after explanation: fear of losing their jobs 3890
Not worried (after explanation) 1,498
Were not sure about AI as long as it was controlled 907
Felt AI was a threat after explanation 3890
Felt AI was a threat if it could learn on its own without control 6013
Felt AI was not intelligent enough to be a threat, and/or that AI did not "think". 282
AI AGENT KNOWLEDGE PIE
AI COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE - 1/6295
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AFTER THE EXPLANATION
In April of 2017, D & J BROWN IDIOMAS LTDA 40.461.953/0001-71 160.023-8 began inspecting clients from around the world using the Preply.com interface, recording the answers from 6295 participants.
In September of 2023, the collection of data stopped revealing current state of data.
Process: In a 1 hour interveiw, participants were asked various questions about life, work, and general questions during evaluation of their english knowledge.
The questions included questions about AI:
Do you know what AI is?
Have you ever heard of Agents in AI?
Are you worried about AI?
After recording results, participants were asked about their jobs, locations, and experience.
Then, during the interview, this explanation was given:
AI is not a computer, it is a program that can run on computers.
It can learn things by taking in data, looking for patterns, identifying those patterns, and then matching those patterns with other patterns.
This gives AI the ability to see things that humans may overlook.
An Agent is a particular AI that works to do specific tasks related to specific inputs.
Some agents know more than other Agents.
Have you ever heard of DNC (AI agent communities, and do you know what they are?
The reactions of participants about the Agents in communities was much different than the reaction of agents working alone.
Then another set of questions was asked:
Do you think you understand what AI is now?
Are you afraid of what AI can do now that you know?
What if the right, or wrong people controlled AI?
What if AI could learn by itself and act by itself on that?
In conclusion, the level of understanding about AI was relatively low amoung the participants, AI agents was extremely low, and the knowledge of AI communiities, with the exception of 1 software ML expert, was non existent.
The fear level of people immediately rose once they were alreted to AI, agents, and coommunities of Agents working in tandum to create a larger AI base.
Some participants asked if the interviewer thought they should get new jobs. This was noted (1063 times), but was not the target of the interview.
Many participants (903) refused to believe AI could be creative.
Of the programmers spoken to (1292), 621 believed that AI would not replace them ever.
Of the artists (51), 50 believed they would not be replaced, but 100% of them feared AI and what it would do if it were not controlled
The rest of the pool of participants identified as Doctors, lawyers, and writers.
3115 of the participants claimed to be students