{"id":195231,"date":"2026-03-12T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/americans-have-little-confidence-in-lawmakers-managing-ai-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:25:11","slug":"americans-have-little-confidence-in-lawmakers-managing-ai-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/americans-have-little-confidence-in-lawmakers-managing-ai-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans have little confidence in lawmakers managing AI policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/nation-world\/majority-of-americans-view-ai-as-a-net-negative-for-humanity-new-survey-finds-artifical-intelligence\">Americans have little confidence in lawmakers managing AI policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/nation-world\/majority-of-americans-view-ai-as-a-net-negative-for-humanity-new-survey-finds-artifical-intelligence\">https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/nation-world\/majority-of-americans-view-ai-as-a-net-negative-for-humanity-new-survey-finds-artifical-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 12:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"bakersfieldnow.com\">bakersfieldnow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new NBC News survey highlights that a majority of Americans perceive the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a net negative.<\/li>\n<li>57% of respondents believe the downsides of AI outweigh its benefits, while only 34% think the benefits surpass the costs.<\/li>\n<li>33% of voters express little confidence in the ability of either Democrat or Republican politicians to manage AI policy.<\/li>\n<li>24% of voters claim that there is no clear difference between the two parties\u2019 policies concerning AI.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns are prevalent among Americans about AI causing significant job losses, despite AI-related industries creating new jobs.<\/li>\n<li>In parallel, a day before the poll&#8217;s release, the White House announced a $1.7 billion investment pledge from over 12 AI companies based in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have little confidence in lawmakers managing AI policy https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/nation-world\/majority-of-americans-view-ai-as-a-net-negative-for-humanity-new-survey-finds-artifical-intelligence Publish Date: 2026-03-12 12:53:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/resources\/media\/06b10af3-1362-48e9-9c14-624939ecce5d-jumbo16x9_AP24134775174210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-195231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195233,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195231\/revisions\/195233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}