Community adults entering an AI education session held broad, generalized concerns about AI, including distrust of self-regulation and privacy worries¶

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q2 i? Pre-session survey responses showed broad and generalized concerns about AI, including distrust of technology companies' self-regulation (76%), fears of societal harm (74%), and privacy worries (75%). → pre-survey-1

Evidence¶

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Yao Lyu, Leonymae Aumentado, Holden Winton, Jared Lee Katzman, Sparkle Berry, Zachary Rowe, Kimberly Sanders, and Tawanna R. Dillahunt. 2026. Co-Designing Community-Centered AI Education for Adults: A Midwestern Case Study. CSCW Companion '26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3785651.3831486

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Descriptive analysis of the pre-session survey completed by 37 of 54 attendees at a community AI education session. Responses showed "broad and generalized concerns about AI", with distrust of self-regulation at 76% (26 of 35) and privacy worries at 75% (21 of 28). No inferential tests were reported.

"In the pre-survey, attendees’ responses showed broad and generalized concerns about AI, including skepticism about trustworthiness (25 of 35, 71%), fears of large-scale societal harm (26 of 35, 74%), distrust of technology companies’ ability to self-regulate (26 of 35, 76%), and worries about privacy (21 of 28, 75%)."

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