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NZ Herald
26-05-2025
- Business
- NZ Herald
Most NZers distrust AI, fear job losses despite usage
A One NZ survey shows most New Zealanders don't trust AI and fear job losses from it. NZers fear AI job losses and distrust it. The majority of New Zealanders fear artificial intelligence will take their jobs, but that hasn't stopped them from using it. A survey of 1000 people conducted by market research firm Perceptive and commissioned by One NZ shows conflicting attitudes towards AI: 65% fear job losses, 62% worry about the use of AI leading to unfair decision-making, 67% of people were concerned about the misuse of personal data, and 47% did not trust large companies to use AI ethically. None of this has prevented people from adopting AI, with 77% of respondents saying they had knowingly used AI services over the past year. However, there are generational differences with 90% of 18 to 34-year-olds having interacted with AI compared to 60% of people aged 55 years and older.
Kiwiblog
22-04-2025
- Kiwiblog
Huge drop in victims of violent crime
The latest NZ Crime and Victims Survey has found a massive drop in the number of New Zealanders who say they were the victim of a violent (including sexual) crime in the last year. Now recall these are over a 12 month period so only the last two data points reflect an entire year under National. Basically from 2022 to 2024 the number of NZers who were violently or sexually assaulted increased from 160,000 to 215,000 or 45,000 more victims. It has now dropped to 157,000 and hopefully will continue to decline. So in the 12 months from July 2023 to June 2024 62,000 Māori were the victims or violent or sexual assaults. In the last 12 months it was only 23,000 – a reduction of 37%. I am awaiting the press release from Te Pati Maori welcoming this.
