English-speaking countries more nervous about rise of AI, polls suggest

Exclusive: Excitement is higher elsewhere, in global split that seems to mirror level of trust in government regulation

People in English-speaking countries including the UK, US, Australia and Canada are more nervous about the rise of artificial intelligence than those in the largest EU economies, where excitement over its spread is higher, new research suggests.

A global split over what has been dubbed the wonder and worry" of AI appears to correlate with widely divergent levels of trust in governments to regulate the fast-developing technology.