Do you hate or love AI? Take <i>Nature's </i>poll

A backlash against artificial intelligence is growing. Credit: Liubomyr Vorona/iStock via Getty Artificial-intelligence tools are becoming more sophisticated and are now part of people’s everyday lives. But even as AI entrepreneurs encourage their use, a survey by US broadcaster NBC News in March showed that the majority of people in the United States thought that the risks of AI outweigh the benefits. Just 26% of participants said that they have positive feelings about AI, compared with 46% who had negative views. But what do researchers think? AI tools are increasingly central to scientific work , driving research advances . However, they also make it easy to create poor-quality and entirely fabricated research, polluting the scientific canon . Researchers have also raised concerns about the impact that the reliance on AI has on human cognition , the threat AI tools present to jobs and the effects of the high energy demands of AI on the climate.