Americans Fear AI Will Take Their Jobs, But Hope It Can Cure Cancer

Americans rank job loss as their biggest fear about artificial intelligence (AI), while curing diseases like cancer tops their hopes, according to a survey of nearly 52,000 people by Anthropic.

The findings expose a gap between what the public wants from AI and what it dreads, as real layoff data and political pressure over automation build across the United States.

Job Loss Outranks Every Other AI…