Americans Are a Lot More Worried About AI Than the Rest of the World

It turns out that people in much of the world outside the West still feel pretty optimistic about the future of AI.

The first results from a global survey conducted by Gallup and Microsoft found that AI adoption varies widely around the world and so do people’s attitudes toward the technology.

On Tuesday, Gallup published results from the first 37 countries in an AI engagement study that will eventually cover 140 countries. The survey looks at how aware people are…