"any good surveys of people outside of tech"

Yes, see the link from the original post.

@matt

"Take my brother Andrew"

That's just anecdotal evidence, though. Did you look through the actual studies I linked to?

"politically right-leaning"

Yep, that checks out.

AI and the Rise of Techno-Fascism in the United States

Will powerful new tools be used to promote democracy or undermine it?

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

Tommy Robinson tweets an image of soldiers walking into the ocean on D-Day. Britain First’s co-leader produces imagery of Muslim men laughing at sad white girls on public transport. An AI-generated song combining kitsch schlager pop with crude racial stereotypes makes it into the German top fifty and becomes number three on Spotify’s global viral chart. Benjamin Netanyahu conjures a vision of an ethnically-cleansed Gaza connected by bullet train to the equally ephemeral Neom. Keir Starmer’s Lab…

New Socialist (newsocialist.org.uk)

Maybe the difference is that, last I checked, my brother is politically right-leaning at least, while my sister is progressive.

OTOH, the non-tech folks in my family and friend circle seem to be uniformly anti-AI without having much input on my part. A few have asked me what I thought of it, but mostly I've been told unprompted that they dislike it.

But, I also see articles about AI in education where teachers are struggling with students who want to use it in classes, even for fiction writing! (Why??)

I suspect it's a lot like politics--the people you are most often in contact with tend to hold the same values. So it seems like *everybody* does, or that the other opinions are outliers.