TikTok Ban Is Popular With Voters as AI Stirs Privacy Fears, Poll Shows
Swing-state voters worry AI will diminish privacy but are more upbeat about its potential impact on health and education.
A TikTok advertisement at a Metro station in Washington, DC.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergMany swing-state voters say they are worried that the growing presence of artificial intelligence could one day diminish privacy and hurt job prospects, according to a new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll that also found majority support for efforts to ban TikTok.
More than half of respondents in seven battleground states predicted a negative impact from AI on privacy, with nearly half seeing a future negative impact on jobs, the poll found. At the same time, artificial intelligence was seen having positive impacts on health by 45% of respondents and on education by 41%.