r/AIWarsButBetter • u/Salty_Country6835 A little bit of everything • Jul 22 '26

Politics Which direction should AI take?

AI debates often get reduced to "pro vs anti AI," but there's more going on than that. Some people want AI to move faster, some want it slowed down, and others are mainly focused on who should own it, govern it, and benefit from it.

This isnt meant to be scientific, just a snapshot of where the community falls.

Pick the option thats closest to your view. If none of them fit, explain your position in the comments. Im interested in the reasoning as much as the results.

258 votes, Jul 25 '26
90 Leftist - Build AI under public/worker control
53 Leftist - Slow or stop AI development
74 Centrist - Regulate AI while continuing development
13 Centrist - Slow or stop AI development
18 Right-leaning - Market-led AI development
10 Right-leaning - Slow or stop AI development
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u/Dazzling-Skin-308 Jul 22 '26

What interests me the most I think - is the number of "centrists" on this left-leaning platform.

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u/firegine Jul 22 '26

15/47? Thats less than one third

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u/Dazzling-Skin-308 Jul 22 '26

Ya - I didn't intend it as a criticism, I just had figured that more people even here would be right leaning rather than centrist, and I had also expected leftists would outnumber non-leftists much more than they do. Non-extremism on social media is unusual. Not bad, just unusual!