Italians and artificial intelligence?
Some sectors are enthusiastic about its use, such as in medicine and home automation, but worried about its use in areas such as journalism, school and finance.
It is the photograph that emerges from a recent investigation commissioned by Readly, the subscription app for digital magazines and newspapers, which investigated the relationship between our country and technologies that use AI.
Almost one in two Italians, the results say, have high expectations from the use of Artificial Intelligence in medicine and only 16% say they are worried about the implications in this sector.
In particular, young people between 18 and 29 years old (49%) and those over 60 (47%) demonstrate enthusiasm.
In general, men are more likely to trust: 35% believe it is advantageous, compared to 25% of women.
34% of Italians look favorably on the growing presence of AI also in smart-home technology, with a peak of 41% among young people aged 18-29.
However, fears definitely outweigh optimism when it comes to enhancing technology with Artificial Intelligence in journalism, where as many as a quarter of Italians consider it dangerous, compared to 8% who believe it can improve the sector.
Almost all of those interviewed (90%) also consider AI harmful in the context of social relationships (87% of young people between 18 and 29 years old and 94% of those over sixty) and in its use at school.
"The feedback from the Readly survey - comments marketing director Marie Sophie Von Bibra - underlines the importance of human contact and supervision" in some sectors.
Italians - he says - are happy to embrace technology when it has clear benefits for daily life, but are wary of excessive dependence on AI in areas where human judgment plays an important role." In Readly, which provides unlimited access to 7,600 national and international magazines, in collaboration with 1200 publishers around the world, with subscribers in over 50 countries and content in 17 different languages, "our commitment - continues Marie Sophie Von Bibra - has always been for journalism quality.
While we believe that AI is now a reality, we understand that its integration must be approached judiciously.
Our survey shows that Italians, and Europeans in general, believe that AI has potential in every sector: however, it is necessary to use it consciously to obtain balanced results for everyone."
In addition to medicine and technologies for "intelligent" home automation, the main areas of use in which AI was considered of potential value by the Italians interviewed were coding and technological programming (41%), scientific research (37 %), cybersecurity (32%) and transport (24%).
In the legal and judicial field, AI is considered inappropriate by 89% of those interviewed.
Only 20% of respondents see some advantages in banking and financial services.
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