These are the tech CEOs young people trust most and least when it comes to AI

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Connecting the dots: Is it surprising to know that CEOs – the profession most likely to attract or suit individuals with psychopathic or sociopathic traits – aren't trusted to act responsibly when it comes to AI? A new study has confirmed that this is especially true among younger people, who have a particular distrust of executives at Palantir.

The finding was part of a poll conducted by CNBC with Generational Lab. Participants aged between 18 and 34 were given the names of nine tech leaders and asked whether they trust them to act responsibly on AI.

In every case, at least 65% of respondents said they don't trust the bosses. Satya Nadella was the most trusted, with 35% saying they did believe in the Microsoft CEO's intentions for AI.

The second-most-trusted CEO on the list is Sam Altman with a 31% trust rating. Soon after it was revealed that a frontier OpenAI model went rogue and hacked several services online, including Hugging Face, the company said it was slowing the release of its new Astra model because it has "critical" cyber capabilities.

Behind Altman are Elon Musk (30%) and Mark Zuckerberg (29%). Both social media bosses are pouring billions into AI infrastructure buildout and don't have the best reputations for acting responsibly around the technology.

Next on the list is Jensen Huang, the boss of Nvidia, which is now the largest company in the world by market cap because it provides most of the hardware powering the AI industry.

Behind Huang is Google boss Sundar Pichai (26%) and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (24%). Google is spending up to $205 billion to expand its cloud computing capacity as it comes under increased criticism that its AI Overviews feature is stealing traffic from websites. And like Meta, Anthropic has had incidents of AI agents going rogue recently.

Finally, there are Palantir's Chairman Peter Thiel (21%) and its CEO, Alex Karp (19%). Palantir has been involved in several major controversies connected to AI, including helping US immigration authorities locate people targeted for deportation, providing AI-powered military targeting and intelligence systems to the Pentagon, and supplying technology to Israel during the war in Gaza.

Other questions in the poll showed that 45% believe AI will have a negative impact on their careers, while only 10% believe it'll help them in this regard. Forty percent said they believe the federal government must set rules for AI, while 36% said they believe an independent expert body should set the rules. Only 8% said they think AI shouldn't be regulated, and 60% called for data center expansion to be slowed.

Away from AI, just 26% of people in this age category said they hadn't traded on a prediction market like Kalshi over the last 30 days.

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These are the tech CEOs young people trust most and least when it comes to AI

 

[Megalomaniac]

I don't trust any of them at all.

Huang is a puppet.

I wouldn't mind seeing Zuckerberg or Musk in prison.

 

[Axeia]

Zuckerberg isn't utter bottom tier, well there's my surprise for the day.

Basically lit money on fire chasing the 'metaverse' then as what seems like a distraction from that dumpster fire jumped on the AI bandwagon. Shown multiple times to think little of other people and the company has been fined multiple times for dubious practices.

One of the people in the world I'd trust the least in general. Let alone with a technology to make up for Facebooks slow decline.

 

[GeoffreyA]

Pray to the Bald Head;
Pray to the Man-of-Alternatives;
Pray to the M-Arse-K;
Pray to the Friendly Lizard;
Pray to the Leather Jacket;
In Them We Trust.
In the Land of Mordor,
Where the RAM does lie.

 

[wiyosaya]

Is it surprising to know that CEOs – the profession most likely to attract or suit individuals with psychopathic or sociopathic traits – aren't trusted to act responsibly when it comes to AI?

You are kidding, Right?
If these clowns were interested in anything but profits, they might be worthy of trust, however, as I see it, these clowns could care less about anything but profits and cannot be trusted at all.

 

[DanteSmith]

At least the majority doesn't believe in those rats in suits.

 

[wiyosaya]

I don't trust any of them at all.

Huang is a puppet.

I wouldn't mind seeing Zuckerberg or Musk in prison.

IMO, fElon definitely belongs in prison. Zuckerberg is a privileged little brat for whom a lesson about life without riches is sorely lacking.

 

[psycros]

IMO, fElon definitely belongs in prison. Zuckerberg is a privileged little brat for whom a lesson about life without riches is sorely lacking.

LOL, please entertain us with a list of Musk's supposed crimes while you ignore the actual crimes FB has paid out for. Or maybe you'd like to discuss Altman's outright THEFT of ChatGPT.

 

[dangh]

Wth? Trust someone whose job description is to f you up and squeeze you dry? They work for other ceos, not for average joe.

 

[GABulldog]

I wouldn't trust anyone at this point. You may say that a CEO is doing good and that maybe true, but underneath it all they have a personal agenda. The end goal is to run the business and the business makes money.

 

[RudyBob]

What the heck do these young people know? They went to college

 

[Steveb8189]

You are kidding, Right?
If these clowns were interested in anything but profits, they might be worthy of trust, however, as I see it, these clowns could care less about anything but profits and cannot be trusted at all.

That's exactly what he said

 

[Anton Longshot]

I'm surprised to see some blue in the graph.
Seems to me one should be super gullible to trust even one of these monsters.

 

[OortCloud]

Maybe the most telling thing about that rogues-gallery of human-horror-shows and sociopaths is that none of them are trusted by most people - and quite rightly.

 

[Eflow]

If you trust CEOs of public companies to do anything besides make as much money as possible, then I have a bridge to sell you.

 

[airbornex]

Nadella "winning" with 35% distrust-adjacent approval is like getting crowned prom king with 5 votes out of 20. Wild that Altman beats Musk and Zuck, guess "at least he's not tweeting about it" counts for something.

Meanwhile... 74% of that same age group apparently gambled on Kalshi last month, so maybe don't put too much stock in their judgment of trustworthy adults.

 

[BadThad]

Honestly, I could care less about these execs. I've worked with many and their primary concern is compensation, bonuses and what kind of golden parachute they'll get when they leave. After all that, they care about the company - since it is ultimate the source of the money.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

It's depressing that 19% of people trust the guy that has openly said he wants a giant surveillance state to protect him from the masses - and is openly building it.

But he's less well known so probably most of that were people that had no idea who he was but answered the question anyway.

 

[Haaky]

Knowing what we do about these so called "people" how in the heck would anyone trust any of them?
There all out to line there own pockets and take as much from as many as possible.

Prove me wrong. I dare you to try.

 

[toooooot]

I am only surprised to see Altman so high. Juang has lost a lot of trust in the recent years.
So I am kind of wondering about the accuracy of research.

 

[p51d007]

LOL, please entertain us with a list of Musk's supposed crimes while you ignore the actual crimes FB has paid out for. Or maybe you'd like to discuss Altman's outright THEFT of ChatGPT.

Musk was the "darling of the left/green" types until he bought twitter & let "bad orange man" back on twitter, then hooked up with "bad orange man". He could discover a cure for every disease known to man and they would still hate him.
Sadly, that's why are country is so divided. You are either team red or team blue. If you don't subscribe to most of their ideals, they throw you under the bus.

 

[Eflow]

Musk was the "darling of the left/green" types until he bought twitter & let "bad orange man" back on twitter, then hooked up with "bad orange man". He could discover a cure for every disease known to man and they would still hate him.
Sadly, that's why are country is so divided. You are either team red or team blue. If you don't subscribe to most of their ideals, they throw you under the bus.

Comments like yours are why the country is so divided.

I personally stopped liking Musk when he called a hero who saved children a "pedo" for not wanting to use a crappy make-shift device that Musk's companies designed.

Then I started to dislike him when he blatantly tried to manipulate the stocks of his companies on Twitter, and it became evident that billionaires don't play by the same rules as us peons.

Then Musk inserted himself into mainstream politics.

Who doesn't like when the world's richest man stands at the border and saying that the U.S should not allow lawbreaks into the create, meanwhile there is a very good chance that Musk violated the original visa he received to come to enter the country?

Who doesn't like a guy who tells people they can win a $1 million lottery by voting, but then it comes to light that the winners were preselected Republican insiders?

Who doesn't like a guy who is so transphobic that his trans daughter changed her name and cut him out of her life completely?

Who likes a guy like that? People like you, apparently.

 

[Mr Majestyk]

All of them should up against the wall when the revolution comes.

 

[pnntmp]

Just check the original title of the CNBC poll

New CNBC Generation Lab poll shows almost half of 18- to 34-year-olds see democratic socialism positively

They deliberately selected a severely damaged cohort for the poll, probably the social justice and gender studies department of some 'progressive' college.
As socialist types hate everyone who's building something and is rich because of that (they call socialism 'the religion of envy' for a reason) these results are not surprising at all. Actually, they may be even useful.

Here is the plan how to use the results:
Socialists have one amazing property - they are consistently wrong on everything. If these are the people socialists hate most, the President should put them in an AI council and let it decide everything related to AI.

 

[acrossthestars]

What measurement of "trust" are we using here? "Trust" as in "they are good custodians of their companies, their customers and the world they inhabit", then absolutely not. They have all collectively made the entire world worse.

On the other hand, if by "trust" the survey means "they can be trusted to be scummy individuals with a god complex, out to destroy the world and everyone in it, just for a 5% gain in their stock portfolio", then yeah, I could see that.