Surveying attitudes towards AI at Western: promises, perils and possibilities

In recent years, there has been increasing use of digital technologies in a range of industries such as education, finance, health, manufacturing, agriculture and commercial transportation. The evolution of social media, especially, has seen AI-generated agents increasingly used to monitor, moderate and determine what we see and hear, as well as what we buy and sell, on these platforms. Software companies such as Microsoft and Google have been constantly using aggregated user data to produce metrics that resemble surveillance techniques creating a possible new era of scientific management.