Poll: 86% of Americans Support Independent AI Safety Standards

A recent opinion poll found that 86% of Americans support requiring companies developing artificial intelligence systems to meet independent safety standards.

The finding points to broad public backing for safety requirements set outside the companies themselves, rather than leaving developers alone to determine the standards their systems should meet.

The question concerns how AI development should be governed. Support for independent standards does not, on its own, establish which specific safeguards respondents would favor or how they should be enforced.

The available summary did not provide the poll’s sample size, methodology or fieldwork dates. It also did not detail the safety standards respondents were asked to consider.