Exclusive poll: Americans favor AI data regulation
Politico May 6, 2024
The biggest artificial intelligence firms train their products on oceans of public data, using massive amounts of energy — and a new poll shared exclusively with POLITICO shows Americans would like regulation on both.
The Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute, a pro-regulation AI think tank, found that 60 percent of respondents said AI companies should not be able to train freely on public data. Nearly three quarters of people polled said companies should be “required to compensate the creators of that data.” And 78 percent said there should be regulations on the use of public data to train AI models, with Democrats only slightly more enthusiastic than Republicans.
The online poll of 1,039 people was conducted on April 12 and 13....