Survey evidence on public support for AI safety oversight.

A number of AI safety concerns are being increasingly discussed by experts, including misinformation, invasion of privacy, job displacement, and criminal misuse. Two exploratory studies conducted in Germany and Spain (combined n = 2864) provide evidence that the general public largely supports strict oversight over safety of commercial artificial intelligence research. Among the factors that are associated with preferences for strict oversight are age, anticipated job displacement, innovativeness, and risk, time and altruistic preferences.

Cross-temporal relations of conditional risk perception measures with protective actions against COVID-19.

Two decades ago a research team clarified that cross-sectional associations of risk perceptions and protective behavior can only test an "accuracy" hypothesis: e.g., people with higher risk perceptions at T should also exhibit low protective behavior and/or high risky behavior at T.