The 'AI vibe check' shows Americans haven't completely turned on AI, but it's not getting better.

One daily AI tracker showed that Americans still support continued development of AI, but that sentiment is gradually waning.

Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The tech industry at large is having a frenzied debate about whether AI will kill us all.

Surveys suggest public opinion on continued AI development remains unsettled.

One "AI vibe check" tracker shows that respondents still support AI development.

There's infighting among Silicon Valley insiders and elites about whether AI could kill us all and if frontier companies should slow down because of it.

How do the normies feel, though? You know, the everyday people whose lives AI leaders say will be forever changed for generations to come? "Lukewarm" is how Jason Jones put it.

Every day since February 16, 2024, Jones, a computational social scientist at Stony Brook University, has surveyed 11 different Americans to ask whether they agree or disagree with the following statement: "I support further development of artificial intelligence ." The sample size was dictated by budget.

Jones spends about $10 per day, at around $ 0.80 per respondent, on a third-party platform that collects responses.

Jones calls his tracker an "AI vibe check." The professor said the sample size is too small to get an insightful daily read: "It's kind of a noisy signal, and it ends up looking like a stock chart." Instead, Jones said the goal was to find the "Three Island Mile" moment, or the critical turning point, in which the US mood on AI completely shifts.

That moment has yet to come.

"The major story here is that it doesn't move very much," Jones told Business Insider of the tracker.

"I'm capturing the mood, and the mood is ambivalent and has remained ambivalent." When the daily responses are pooled by month — roughly 300 responses at a time — Jones's tracker has consistently shown a net-positive support for further AI development.

The sentiment, however, is hardly euphoric and is gradually trending downward.

Jason Jones' time-series chart shows that American sentiment toward the further development of AI is trending downward but remains above neutral.