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short readsSep 20, 2021

Polls on COVID-19 vaccination closely align with CDC data

Public polling estimates on COVID-19 vaccination have been within about 2.8 points, on average, of the CDC’s calculated rate.
reportMar 17, 2022

4. Americans cautious about the deployment of driverless cars

Driverless cars may evoke images from sci-fi films to Saturday morning cartoons, but the prospect is hardly remote now. While Americans today cannot purchase a fully autonomous vehicle, there are some cars that already operate with minimal human assistance and others that are expected to be able to run without human drivers in the future. […]
reportJun 16, 2021

Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted as the Norm Within the Next Decade

A majority worries that the evolution of artificial intelligence by 2030 will continue to be primarily focused on optimizing profits and social control. Still, a portion celebrate coming AI breakthroughs that will improve life.
reportMay 26, 2021

2. Climate, energy and environmental policy

A majority of Americans consider climate change a priority today so that future generations can have a sustainable planet, and this view is held across generations. Looking to the future, the public is closely divided on what it will take to address climate change: While about half say it’s likely major lifestyle changes in the […]
reportMay 26, 2021

Gen Z, Millennials Stand Out for Climate Change Activism, Social Media Engagement With Issue

Majorities of Americans support an array of measures to address climate change but stop short of a full break with fossil fuels.
short readsOct 14, 2021

67% of Americans perceive a rise in extreme weather, but partisans differ over government efforts to address it

46% of U.S. adults say the area where they live has had an extreme weather event over the past 12 months.
reportJun 16, 2021

4. Could a quantum leap someday aid ethical AI?

As they considered the potential evolution of ethical AI design, the people responding to this canvassing were given the opportunity to speculate as to whether quantum computing (QC), which is still in its early days of development, might somehow be employed in the future in support of the development of ethical AI systems. In March […]
presentationNov 13, 2020

The future of democracy and civic innovation

Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on October 29, 2020 to scholars, policy makers and civil society advocates convened by New York University’s Governance Lab. He described findings from two canvassings of hundreds of technology and democracy experts that captured their views about the future of democracy and the future of social and civic innovation by the year 2030.
decodedDec 17, 2021

The pros and cons of using professional translators vs. Google Translate to analyze open-ended survey responses

Pew Research Center recently sought to translate more than 11,000 open-ended survey responses into English.
reportNov 15, 2021

1. The views and experiences of U.S. adult Twitter users

U.S. adults on Twitter visit the site with varying degrees of intensity. In all, two-thirds (66%) of Twitter users say they visit the site at least once a week, and the remaining third say they do so less often. And a share of users – 10% of the total – are far more regular visitors, […]

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Polls on COVID-19 vaccination closely align with CDC data

Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted as the Norm Within the Next Decade

67% of Americans perceive a rise in extreme weather, but partisans differ over government efforts to address it

4. Could a quantum leap someday aid ethical AI?

The future of democracy and civic innovation

The pros and cons of using professional translators vs. Google Translate to analyze open-ended survey responses

1. The views and experiences of U.S. adult Twitter users

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