Tech companies are more excited than kids on Christmas about AI. Most people aren’t so thrilled.

New surveys about public attitudes toward artificial intelligence taught me two things:

First, the more AI becomes a reality, the less confidence we have that AI will be an unqualified win for humanity.

And second, we don’t always recognize the pedestrian uses uses of AI in our lives — including in filtering out email spam or recommending new songs — and that may make us overlook both the risks and benefits of the technology.

The bottom line: AI has not won your trust. You want to see proof of its benefits before the technology is used in your hospital room, the battlefield and our roads.

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