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Contribution to the handbook

Supporting · Assessed 2026-10-28

The question helps retain an important distinction for assessing public attitudes: concern about digital technology may coexist in public discussion with some openness to AI influence, but the supplied evidence does not show that the same people hold both views. This informs legitimacy and desirability without establishing endorsement.

Does this challenge the goal?

In-scope gap

The question investigates public concern and willingness in relation to AI in civic decisions, a matter within the existing goal of serving citizens and evaluating desirability. It asks about coexistence, not whether the goal should be changed.

The evidence distinguishes broad public framing from evidence that the same individuals hold both attitudes; prevalence and context remain unclear.

Why this category?

Addresses citizen acceptance and concerns relevant to whether AI should influence public decisions
Distinguishes broad framing and reported willingness from evidence about individual attitudes or actual use

The evidence includes authors’ framing and reported findings from other sources, with limited detail about samples and measures. It does not establish general public acceptance or individual-level coexistence.

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Explain whether these attitudes are compatible, distinguishing coexistence in public discussion or across people from evidence that the same individuals hold both views.

What we can say so far

Yes, concern about digital technology is compatible with some openness to AI in public decisions: people may have reservations about technology while still accepting a limited role for AI. Hidalgo and colleagues frame public concern as coexisting with willingness among some citizens to give AI civic power. This supports coexistence in public discussion or across the population, but it does not establish that the same individuals hold both views. The supplied evidence does not link concern and openness within the same respondents.

What remains open

No supplied evidence measures concern about digital technology and openness to AI in public decisions among the same individuals.
The prevalence and strength of either attitude are not established.

Conditions and limits

The coexistence claim is an attributed framing, not a measured finding from the authors’ own experiment.
The reported survey result concerns stated willingness to accept a limited AI role, not actual use or support for AI control; sample details are not supplied in the passage.
The cited study result about technical tasks does not specify those tasks, and reports a continuing preference for experts.
The supplied interpretations are not independent new evidence.

Objections to consider

The source’s framing supports broad coexistence but explicitly does not show whether the same individuals hold both views; no supplied evidence resolves that individual-level gap.

Evidence and related ideas

Supporting evidence, qualifications and context play different roles in this answer.

qualifies

Concern and openness can coexist The authors frame public concern about digital technology as coexisting with willingness among some citizens to give AI civic power.

Directly frames public concern and some willingness to give AI civic power as coexisting, while expressly not establishing prevalence or whether the same people hold both views.

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