Politics Podcast: Few Americans Think AI Will Do More Good Than Harm

On this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke and Nate Silver open up the mailbag and reply listener questions on politics and polling. They cowl American skepticism of synthetic intelligence — in keeping with one ballot, solely 9 p.c of Individuals say it should do extra good than hurt to society — and contemplate what to make of former president Donald Trump’s good points on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in early Republican presidential major polling.

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