A new Anthropic study based on nearly 81,000 interviews offers a much more nuanced picture of what people actually want from AI: not some clean split between boosters and skeptics, but a messy mix of hope, anxiety, productivity gains, emotional complexity, and fears around reliability, autonomy, and jobs. NLW breaks down the biggest findings, why professional ambition and personal quality of life are so tightly linked in how people describe AI, and why dismissing the views of actual AI users is becoming its own kind of bias. In the headlines: AI brings Val Kilmer back for one final film role, Microsoft restructures Copilot again, and Anthropic’s Cowork Dispatch adds Claude Code sessions.
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