Survey: Asian AI researchers worry more about AI risks than Western peers
KatjaGrace · x · 2026-09-15
- KatjaGrace, who runs the largest and longest-running peer-reviewed survey of AI researchers, reports that Asian researchers in her survey showed greater risk concerns than Western researchers, contrary to the common assumption that China would never slow down.
- She questions why China would not also want to slow down if the US does so to avoid extinction risk.
- An attached figure shows how the distribution of concern shifted in the year before the survey.
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