"any good surveys of people outside of tech"
Yes, see the link from the original post.
"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)
