Professor Ken Brown and a team of University of Iowa researchers recently polled 1,000 people from across the United States to try and better understand how they are using artificial intelligence (AI).
In an article published by the Iowa Capital Dispatch, Brown, who is the Departmental Executive Officer (DEO) of the College of Education’s Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, discussed the survey results, which included some surprises.
The following excerpt is from that article:
“A survey developed by University of Iowa business researchers and sent across the U.S. has yielded surprising results as to how people are using artificial intelligence tools in their personal and professional lives, prompting a drive to dive deeper.
Ken Brown, a professor of management in the UI Tippie College of Business, worked with UI College of Education professor Brian An and management doctoral student Drew Jauron to create a survey asking people in the U.S. where and when they use AI tools, if at all, what tools they were using and for what purpose.
While the survey provided some answers as to how AI is being used and by whom, Brown said it generated just as many new questions.
‘It’s such an important phenomena, it’s become integrated into our lives, but also lots of the research in this area has been very spotty, only focusing on work or home or one program,’ Brown said. ‘We polled 1,000 people to understand, across programs and across contexts, how people were using them.’
Brown said the team worked with the UI Center for Social Science Innovation to connect with national survey company Verasight, which handled sending out the survey and getting the data to the UI researchers.
The team is still working on analyzing the data, Brown said, but even initial responses have surprised the researcher.”