AI Future Outlook Survey

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The survey is anonymous — we do not ask for your name, email, or company. To interpret the answers correctly, we would still like to understand from which perspective they are given.

Which best describes your main perspective?

Which best describes your main perspective?Business owner, founder, or C-level executiveManager or team lead (non-executive)Technical specialist (engineering, data, AI/ML, IT)Non-technical professional (marketing, finance, legal, HR, healthcare, etc.)Public sector, policy, or governmentResearcher, educator, or studentOtherPrefer not to say

Future of Work & Economy

Q1. How will AI affect employment and job opportunities over the next 10 years?

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How will AI affect employment and job opportunities over the next 10 years?AI will eliminate a large number of jobs faster than the economy can create new ones, leading to structural unemployment.AI will remove many existing roles and create significant disruption, even though some new jobs will emerge.AI will transform jobs substantially, but overall employment levels will remain broadly similar.AI will create new professions and opportunities that largely compensate for jobs lost to automation.AI will significantly expand economic opportunities, create entirely new industries, and improve employment prospects overall.

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Q2. How will AI affect economic productivity and business growth?

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How will AI affect economic productivity and business growth?AI will bring limited productivity gains while creating significant economic disruption and concentration of wealth.Productivity will improve, but most benefits will accrue to a relatively small number of companies and sectors.AI will improve productivity, but the overall economic impact will be comparable to previous technology waves.AI will substantially increase productivity and enable companies to grow faster with fewer resources.AI will trigger a major productivity boom and fundamentally increase global economic growth.

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Social Structure & Inequality

Q3. How will AI affect social and economic inequality?

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How will AI affect social and economic inequality?AI will dramatically widen inequality, concentrating wealth and opportunity among a small group of companies and individuals.AI will increase inequality because highly skilled people and technology owners will benefit disproportionately.AI will create both winners and losers, without fundamentally changing current inequality levels.AI will lower barriers to knowledge, expertise, and entrepreneurship, helping more people access economic opportunities.AI will significantly democratize access to skills, education, and economic resources, reducing inequality.

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Q4. How will AI affect access to professional and economic opportunities?

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How will AI affect access to professional and economic opportunities?Access will become more restricted because people without advanced AI skills or resources will be increasingly excluded.Opportunities will improve mainly for people who already have strong education, capital, or technical skills.AI will change how opportunities are distributed but will not substantially increase or reduce access overall.AI will allow more people to perform high-value work regardless of geography, education, or company size.AI will radically democratize professional capabilities, allowing individuals to access opportunities previously available only to highly trained specialists or large organizations.

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Education & Human Skills

Q5. How will AI affect education?

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How will AI affect education?AI will weaken education by encouraging dependency, reducing effort, and making genuine learning harder.AI will make learning easier but may reduce deep understanding and independent thinking.AI will become another educational tool, improving some aspects while creating new problems in others.AI tutors and personalized learning will significantly improve access to high-quality education.AI will fundamentally transform education, giving almost everyone access to personalized, high-quality teaching.

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Q6. How will widespread AI use affect human thinking and skills?

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How will widespread AI use affect human thinking and skills?People will increasingly lose critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills because these activities will be delegated to AI.Some important cognitive skills will weaken as people become more dependent on AI assistance.Some skills will decline while new skills, such as AI collaboration and judgment, will become more important.AI will enhance human capabilities by freeing people from routine cognitive work and allowing more focus on higher-level thinking.AI will significantly amplify human intelligence and creativity, enabling people to solve problems that were previously beyond their capabilities.

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Power, Government & Institutions

Q7. How will AI affect the distribution of power in society?

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How will AI affect the distribution of power in society?AI will lead to unprecedented concentration of power among a small number of governments and technology companies.Large companies and states controlling advanced AI will gain significantly more influence than individuals and smaller organizations.AI will shift power between institutions, companies, and individuals without clearly concentrating or distributing it.AI will give individuals and smaller organizations capabilities previously available only to large institutions.AI will strongly decentralize power by dramatically increasing the capabilities of individuals and small groups.

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Q8. How will AI affect governments and public institutions?

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How will AI affect governments and public institutions?AI will increase surveillance, manipulation, bureaucratic control, and the risk of automated unfair decisions.Governments will gain efficiency from AI, but risks to privacy, transparency, and accountability will outweigh many benefits.AI will improve some government services while introducing comparable new governance risks.AI will make public services faster, cheaper, more personalized, and more evidence-based.AI will significantly improve government effectiveness, transparency, and public access to high-quality services.

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Human Behaviour & Society

Q9. How will AI assistants and AI companions affect human relationships?

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How will AI assistants and AI companions affect human relationships?AI will significantly reduce human interaction and contribute to isolation and weaker social relationships.AI companions will provide convenience and emotional support but may replace some meaningful human interaction.AI will become another form of communication and support without fundamentally changing human relationships.AI assistants will reduce loneliness, improve communication, and help people maintain stronger relationships.AI will meaningfully enhance human relationships by improving communication, emotional support, and social connection.

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Q10. How will reliance on AI affect individual autonomy?

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How will reliance on AI affect individual autonomy?People will increasingly outsource decisions to AI and lose significant independence and personal agency.AI recommendations will subtly shape people's choices and reduce independent decision-making.People will delegate some decisions to AI while retaining control over important choices.AI will help people make better-informed decisions while leaving final control with the individual.AI will substantially increase personal autonomy by giving individuals better information, expertise, and control over their lives.

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Risks & Long-Term Future

Q11. How do you feel about a scenario where models train the next generations of models, while humans exert less and less control over that cycle?

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How do you feel about a scenario where models train the next generations of models, while humans exert less and less control over that cycle?The scenario is realistic and extremely dangerous — human control will be lost and the risks will become unacceptable.A model-to-model training loop will erode human control faster than reliable safety guarantees can keep up.This will happen in part, but the outcome is unclear — control may still hold at the level of goals, infrastructure, and constraints.Models will help train other models, but key decisions and stop-levers will remain with people.Automated model-to-model training is a desirable, manageable path — humans set the boundaries without micromanaging every step.

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Q12. What is your long-term view of increasingly capable AI systems?

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What is your long-term view of increasingly capable AI systems?More capable AI represents a fundamental long-term threat to social stability and potentially to humanity itself.Advanced AI creates serious systemic risks that may eventually outweigh its benefits if not tightly controlled.The long-term outcome is genuinely uncertain and will depend largely on governance and how the technology develops.Advanced AI will create major benefits, and its risks are likely to remain manageable.Increasingly capable AI will fundamentally expand human possibilities and could become one of the most important drivers of human progress.

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AI Future Outlook

About you

Which best describes your main perspective?

Future of Work & Economy

Q1. How will AI affect employment and job opportunities over the next 10 years?

Q2. How will AI affect economic productivity and business growth?

Social Structure & Inequality

Q3. How will AI affect social and economic inequality?

Q4. How will AI affect access to professional and economic opportunities?

Education & Human Skills

Q5. How will AI affect education?

Q6. How will widespread AI use affect human thinking and skills?

Power, Government & Institutions

Q7. How will AI affect the distribution of power in society?

Q8. How will AI affect governments and public institutions?

Human Behaviour & Society

Q9. How will AI assistants and AI companions affect human relationships?

Q10. How will reliance on AI affect individual autonomy?

Risks & Long-Term Future

Q11. How do you feel about a scenario where models train the next generations of models, while humans exert less and less control over that cycle?

Q12. What is your long-term view of increasingly capable AI systems?

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