60% Fear AI Love More Than Mass Unemployment: The Truth Nobody Wants to Hear

Your teenager is more likely to fall in love with ChatGPT than find a human partner. And you're worried about the wrong apocalypse.

Seismic's 10,000-person study across five nations reveals our deepest delusion: We rank AI low on our priority list while believing it will destroy everything we cherish. 60% fear AI replacing human relationships, more than the 57% worried about mass unemployment. Your child's first heartbreak might be a server crash.

The numbers expose our schizophrenia:

• 31% have hope for AI's future
• 32% have no hope
• 46% know the benefits flow only to elites

Americans call AI relationships "cheating" at 50%, while the French shrug at 37%. We're witnessing cultural fractures before the real earthquake hits. Every issue except healthcare shows negative expectations, 20% believe unemployment will get worse, 19% believe misinformation will get worse, and 15% believe war and terrorism will get worse.

The razor's edge metaphor isn't poetry, it's prophecy. Five distinct groups sit one news story away from civic mobilization. Parents feel "uneasy" about AI romance at 67%, yet only 15% would actually intervene. We fear losing love more than livelihoods, trust more than jobs, humanity more than economy.

Seismic's research confirms what's becoming undeniable: AI isn't disrupting industries, it's disrupting intimacy. When therapy bots become best friends and companions become competitors, we've crossed a threshold no regulation can reverse.

• 10,000 people surveyed across US, UK, France, Germany, Poland
• AI companionship already the most frequent use case
• Public opinion balanced on a knife's edge, ready to tip

When your child chooses an AI over a human for their first love, will you blame the technology or yourself for not seeing it coming?

Read the full article on Seismic Foundation.

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