Harvard survey finds men overstate AI knowledge, claim fake executives exist
A Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center survey of more than 5,400 Americans shows a gender gap in AI confidence. Forty percent of women also said they knew the fake names, while 38 percent recognized Murati. Men use AI more often and answer factual questions correctly more frequently, but both genders answer incorrectly at similar rates. Women said "not sure" on an average of 3.3 out of 12…
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- 53% of men claimed to know fictional AI executives Milner and Dalton
- Men said "not sure" on 2.3 of 12 questions vs 3.3 for women
- Men appear in AI headlines 14x more often than women
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