By Gazette Staff
October 8th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Most people recognize the initials and the words: AI -Alternative Intelligence.
In a recently released Pew Research 
That’s a big jump from 2022, when 38 percent of people said the same thing. Probably not coincidentally, ChatGPT was made available to the public in late 2022.
In recent days, a Pew poll also that found people are lukewarm about the usefulness, and mistrustful of the information, in AI-generated web search summaries like Google’s AI Overviews. And a majority of Americans say that they’re more worried than hopeful about AI on the job, another Pew survey found this year.
There’s probably no single reason for the relatively sour public opinion about AI, and our views can quickly change. But the pessimism about AI may reflect a tug-of-war between wanting to benefit from AI but also feeling afraid of its downsides or being left behind if we don’t get on board. That’s how I feel.
If nothing else, the significant thread of AI pessimism calls for more candour and empathy from ourselves, technology executives, corporate bosses and public officials about our uneasiness with this technology that we keep being told is an unstoppable freight train.
Originally published in the Washington Post
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