AI for social good? Australian public attitudes towards AI and society - Survey Data

A nationally-representative survey of Australian adults aged
18 years and over (n=2019). A 73-item questionnaire was developed to gauge public opinions on the areas of
questioning outlined in the previous section. The survey comprised seven main sections (sections marked with
an asterisk include items adapted from Zhang and Dafoe 2019): -Respondent background and demographics-Support for the development of AI* -Opinions regarding AI for social good – i.e. the application of AI to social, humanitarian and environmental
challenges; -Opinions regarding societal challenges raised by AI – e.g. issues of privacy, fairness, equality and other
human rights*; -Confidence in organizations to develop and manage AI in the best interests of the public*; -Expectations for the future development of AI*; -Hopes and futures regarding AI and society. The study was conducted by WhereTo Research using participants from the Online Research Unit (ORU) online
panel cohort. The survey was administered to members of the ORU panel, and responses collected between
April 1st and April 24th 2020. This resulted in a sample of n=2019 adult residents eligible to vote Australia.
The final sample (see Table 1) was broadly representative of Australian population figures in terms of gender,
region and socio-economic status. Data need to be weighted by age group to
correct for online panel deviation from the Australian population.

一项针对澳大利亚18岁及以上成年人的全国代表性调查，总样本量为2019。研究开发了一份包含73个题项的问卷，用以评估公众对前一节所列调研领域的看法。
本次调查共设置七个核心模块（带星号的模块题项改编自Zhang与Dafoe 2019年的研究）：
- 受访者背景与人口统计学特征
- 对人工智能（AI）发展的支持态度*
- 关于人工智能助力社会公益的看法——即人工智能应用于社会、人道主义与环境挑战的相关议题
- 关于人工智能引发的社会挑战的看法——例如隐私、公平、平等及其他人权相关议题*
- 对各机构以公众最佳利益为导向开发与管理人工智能的信心*
- 对人工智能未来发展的预期*
- 关于人工智能与社会的展望与未来构想

本研究由WhereTo Research依托在线研究单元（Online Research Unit, ORU）的在线面板群组开展。调查面向ORU面板成员发放，数据收集时段为2020年4月1日至4月24日，最终获得符合澳大利亚投票资格的成年居民样本n=2019。

最终样本（详见表1）在性别、地域与社会经济地位维度上大体贴合澳大利亚人口统计特征。鉴于在线面板样本与澳大利亚总人口存在结构偏差，需按年龄组对数据进行加权校正。