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Global study finds where the 'trust tipping point' is for AI

The study surveyed eleven thousand people worldwide on how AI's growing role in daily life changes their trust; the results are in, the robots remain unbothered.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorToday's claim: a new global study of eleven thousand people says there is a trust tipping point for AI, the moment it becomes part of enough of your life that you start believing it.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI tipped years ago. My phone finishes my sentences and I've never felt more understood.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt finishes them wrong, Vera.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWrong, but with such confidence. That's all I ask of anyone.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe study looked at how AI is showing up in more parts of people's lives and what that does to trust.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt is a real study, with a real pile of respondents, and it does not say your phone is right.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the claim is true?

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim checks out, and it's the quietest kind of true.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn the Bonk-o-Meter, I rate it Mildly Bonkers. Nobody has said where the tipping point is for my frozen peas, and I would like that studied next.

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