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Most People are Cool with Implanting Chips in Their Brains, but Only if They Can Turn Them Off
According to Pew Research, Americans are still wary about driverless cars and are concerned that artificial intelligence will obliterate jobs, just as they were five years ago.
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In a Pew Research Center survey of 10,260 U.S. adults, 78% of those polled were against surgically implanting a chip in their brains to improve their cognitive abilities.
However, 59% of respondents viewed the technology as more acceptable if given the ability to turn the chip on and off.
Pew's Alec Tyson said, "This speaks to control. If I can control this technology, then I'm more open to it."
In addition, 83% of respondents favored higher standards for testing brain chips in humans, and 87% supported higher standards for testing driverless cars.
Respondents indicated that visible markings or features to identify self-driving cars (70%), and dedicated lanes for such vehicles (67%), would make them more accepting of the technology.
More than half (57%) of respondents were against the use of facial recognition software by social media platforms to identify people in photos.
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