Harvard survey: 53% of men 'know' fictional AI executives

A Harvard Kennedy School survey of 5,400 Americans found 73% of men said they knew Sam Altman, while 53% claimed to know Mira Murati, Susan Milner and Craig Dalton — the latter two are fictional. Men were more confident in AI answers but erred at similar rates to women.

• 73% of men said they knew Sam Altman; 53% claimed to know Mira Murati
• Milner and Dalton are fictional, yet 40% of women 'recognized' them
• Men were unsure on 2.3 of 12 questions on average, women on 3.3
• Men appear in AI headlines over 14 times as often as women