People are starting to trust AI more – and view it as more human-like

People are becoming more trusting of and warm towards AI models, according to a year-long survey of those living in the US.

Myra Cheng at Stanford University in California and her colleagues gathered this information on the crowdsourcing platform Prolific. Between May 2023 and August 2024, roughly 1000 participants a month completed the researchers’ questionnaire, although – due to technical issues with the platform – only 12 months of data was collected over the 16-month period surveyed.

The participants, who…