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Public perceptions of Artificial intelligence (AI) are mostly positive, but recent research indicates growing skepticism and differentiated attitudes towards different AI applications. Moreover, research showed that more conservative people are more skeptical. Extending previous research, we tested the role of authoritarianism, a broad ideological attitude, in relation to attitudes towards AI in different domains in a German online sample (N = 1,027). Structural equation models showed the expected ambivalent relationship between authoritarianism and attitudes towards technology (expressed in terms of positive and negative attitudes) as well as differentiated relationships with specific AI attitudes. Authoritarianism showed a small positive total effect on attitudes towards AI in autonomous vehicles and a non-significant total effect on AI in robots (mediated by attitudes towards technology and towards AI in general), but a strong relationship with attitudes towards AI in surveillance, which is in line with the general authoritarian preference for security and social order. |
