🌍 People worry more about AI’s societal impacts than its personal ones. While participants were almost evenly split on personal concern, 55% expressed high concern about societal effects, and only 2.4% were more worried about themselves than society.

🏆 Misinformation, scams, and authoritarian control top the list. These three concerns ranked highest among all 16 issues studied, with participants rating them substantially more worrying than the remaining 12 concerns, which all clustered closely together.

🗳️ AI concern appears to not be a partisan issue. Political alignment had no statistically significant effect on overall concern about AI, suggesting it remains a non-partisan topic, though conservatives showed slightly less worry about inequality and discrimination specifically.

🧩 Demographics barely explain who worries about AI. The regression model explained only 8% of variance in concern scores, and only spirituality and being a woman showed non-negligible predictive power (but even these were very modest effect sizes). This provides more evidence that concern is broadly distributed across society.

🤖 AI suffering stands alone as the least concerning issue. It scored significantly lower than all other 15 concerns, with no overlapping confidence intervals, likely because many see AI consciousness as implausible or exclude AI from moral consideration entirely.”