{"id":196827,"date":"2026-03-17T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollster-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:01:55","slug":"americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollster-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollster-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollsters-find-2000734713\">Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollsters-find-2000734713\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollsters-find-2000734713<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 16:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americans are increasingly concerned about the implications of AI on the economy and society, with widespread belief that it poses risks.<\/li>\n<li>The public overwhelmingly supports prioritizing help for American workers who lose their jobs due to AI over incentivizing tech companies for innovation, reflecting skepticism towards trickle-down economics.<\/li>\n<li>A majority believes tech companies should not profit unlimitedly from AI and should be held accountable for job losses that result from AI, indicating economic insecurity and distrust towards corporations.<\/li>\n<li>AI has risen significantly in importance among voters, now surpassing issues such as guns, climate change, and abortion, highlighting growing public concern.<\/li>\n<li>Many Americans lack confidence in the government\u2019s strategy to mitigate the negative effects of AI, displaying significant concern over job loss and industry displacement due to AI.<\/li>\n<li>The public rejects the notion that AI will universally benefit everyone or avoid widespread job losses, suggesting a widespread distrust in Big Tech\u2019s innovation-focused narratives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollsters-find-2000734713 Publish Date: 2026-03-17 16:50:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AIProtest-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196827"}],"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=196827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}