Growing Number of Americans Believe AI Will Negatively Impact Jobs Market [Video]

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an ever more pervasive technology, two recent polls have indicated that the number of Americans fearful of its impact on the U.S. jobs market is increasing.

A YouGov study published on Wednesday found that more Americans expected AI advances to decrease the number of available jobs in their industry this year than said so last year.

In March 2023, 29 percent of 2,000 U.S. adult respondents said they believe AI would reduce the number of jobs in their industry – a figure which spiked to 41 percent in a July survey that year.

In 2024, another YouGov survey in March found that 43 percent of 1,066 respondents held these fears, and in August half (48 percent) of 1,098 said they believed AI would negatively impact the jobs market in their profession.

YouGov’s report also said that whilst many Americans were wary of an overall decrease …