The majority of Italians, 54%, are not prepared on the subject of artificial intelligence. An even higher percentage, 59%, also think that the policy and laws of the state should intervene as much as possible, even prohibiting its use if it were the case, or otherwise regulating most use cases. This is the photograph taken from a survey conducted by YouTrend for the Fondazione Pensiero Solido.
On the employment front, according to the survey, among Italians the perception prevails in general that this technology will lead to an overall decline in jobs: 51% of respondents think so, while for 10% employment will increase and for 26% jobs will remain more or less the same even if tasks change. The majority of employed people (55%) would also not be willing to be instructed by artificial intelligence at work (while 37% do), although automatic control and evaluation are still perceived more as an advantage (47%) than as a disadvantage (30%), and this perception of advantage increases especially among young people and graduates.
The jobs perceived as more replaceable by artificial intelligence are those carried out by employees (56%), blue-collar workers (51%) and shop assistants (43%), i.e. tasks that do not require high educational qualifications, while on the contrary those that are perceived as less replaceable by artificial intelligence are the artist (24%), the entrepreneur (26%) and the doctor (27%). Only a minority of employed people feel helped (23%) or threatened (21%) by the changes brought about by these new technologies, while the majority (50%) feel neither helped nor threatened.