Concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) among people in New Zealand

2023, % of people concerned about AI

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2023, Survey question: How concerned are you that AI may...?, Response: Concerned
Concern	% of people concerned about AI
Lead to job displacement for people	56.00000000000001%
Violate privacy concerns	61.9999999999999996%
Be used for malicious purposes	71.999999999999997%
Produce inaccurate information	63.0000000000000004%
Perpetuate bias and discrimination against people	56.00000000000001%
Have unintended consequences that causes harm to people	66.000000000000003%
Have no regulation and law regarding the development of AI	71.999999999999997%

Data calculation/treatment

The researchers used a combination of pre-survey quotas and post-survey weighting to ensure results are broadly representative of all New Zealanders by age, gender, region and ethnicity.

For more information

https://internetnz.nz/sites/default/files/New_Zealand_Internet_insights.pdf

Data provided by

InternetNZ

Dataset name

New Zealand’s Internet Insights 2023

Webpage:

https://internetnz.nz/new-zealands-internet-insights/new-zealands-internet-insights-2023/

How to find the data

Internet NZ sent the aggregated data directly to Figure.NZ for the purpose of publication.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: New Zealand’s Internet Insights 2023

From the dataset New Zealand’s Internet Insights 2023, this data was extracted:

Sheet: Q91_1
Range: C14:I23
Provided: 70 data points

This data forms the table Internet - Concerns about artificial intelligence 2023.

Dataset originally released on:

February 2024

About this dataset

In 2018 InternetNZ conducted a consolidated research project that incorporated three historical research projects for both the former NZRS, and InternetNZ. This project covered business and consumer use and attitudes towards domain names, as well as public perceptions of the Internet in general. In 2019 they have replicated a section of this research project, to understand any changes in consumer perceptions of the Internet. The survey follows the same processes for 2018, however from 2019 onwards, the survey focused only on consumer use of and perceptions of the Internet.

Method of collection/Data provider

This was a survey a total of 1,001 people online (803 consumers, and 198 consumers who also manage or own a business)
Fieldwork was conducted from 15th to 22nd November 2023.
The maximum margin of error on the total group n=1,001 is +/-3.1% at the 95% confidence interval.

Concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) among people in New Zealand

2023, % of people concerned about AI

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