Existential risk narratives about AI do not distract from its immediate harms.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2025 · PMC12037001 · PMID 40244662

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Study 2 showed a trend toward decreased impact (1 to 10: β = −0.42, P = 0.00, P adj . = 0.051), but no significant effect was found in Study 3 (1 to 10: β = 0.11, P = 0.45, P adj . = 0.67).

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